Fear In Lord Of The Flies

This project’s purpose is to record a people who have lived through the promises and outcomes of the Bolivarian Revolution, an idea that captured Venezuela’s spirit and spread across 16 Latin America nations as the Pink Tide. The poor and working class will be a fundamental component of this story as I investigate the role the revolution has played in shaping the lives of this perpetually overlooked group of people. Simultaneously, the nature of these issues will create a portal into the world of Venezuelan heritage, traditions, and political and civic culture. What I write will be the reality of the situation; the interpretation will be left up to the reader.

In 1971, a psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to see the impact of fear. What did fear do to man? He was able to simulate an experiment with prisoners and guards and found out at the end of his experiment that the prisoner had severe stress and anxiety. The experiment demonstrated “the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior”. This experiment showed what a particular situation can influence human behavior. In the book, The Lord of the Flies, the characters are on a stranded island where the environment is governing their human behavior and how they react to one another. The character are influenced by fear and behave in ways that they normally would not act in their everyday lives. Man is controlled by fear and it can cause him to do things that he would never imagine doing. Fear results in letting go of your natural instincts and goes to your survival instincts, and makes you become an animal.

In the Garden of Beasts is an important historical book with lots of good information, but can be difficult to understand while reading. In the video Erik Larson, the author, helped answer many of my questions. One of these important questions was how he came up with the idea to write his book about this topic. Another important topic covered was Hitler’s rise to power, and the means he used to keep control of Germany. Larson also discussed how Dodd had connections that made him a candidate for the job of ambassador and the process that happened for him to get his job in Berlin. This video gives a great insight to what the author meant to convey through the book that may not have been easy to pick up on while reading this book.

In fact, the night Bolivar became the dictator of Gran Colombia, he barely escaped assassination. In fact, just a year later, “the opposition to Bolivar had assumed such proportions that an[other] conspiracy to eliminate him was set in motion” (“Simón Bolívar.” Encyclopedia of World Biography). However, Bolivar’s fame “continued to grow to mythical proportions in Latin America” because he was fearless and continued to undermine Spanish authority (“Simón Bolívar.” Encyclopedia of World Biography).

One of the major themes of Lord of the Flies, deals with the struggle between right and wrong and the moral integrity of a society. As soon as the boys realize that they are alone on the island, the battle between right and wrong begins. Ralph emerges as the chief and plans to begin a civilized society. When the boys are left to their own devices, chaos ensues. Some of the boys would rather hunt and kill than build shelter, so Jack’s tribe becomes increasingly popular. Without the existence of rules and refinement, there is little hope for the future of the boys. The beast plays a big role in this theme because it lurks inside everyone. The evils lie within and choices have to be made to survive, whether through smart thinking or

This indicates the Jack fears killing the pig at first, a fear he overcomes as he sheds civilisation and adopts the way of the savage. He then uses fear of beast to control the boys and creates his own tribe and promises of “having fun” (pg. 150) but later, breaks his promise and mistreats the boys. As he empowered, he got more violent. As a chief, Jack showed off his power to the group by hunting, putting Ralph down, and controls the weak. The hunter’s chants “Kill the pig.

In 1950, the British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell once stated, “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”. During the same time, the world was gripped by the fear of communism and the possibility of nuclear attacks during the Cold War. Published in 1954, the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, expresses the ramifications of fear in a group of young English boys that have been stranded on an island. Golding explores both the physical and chemical reactions of fear, as well as the connection to communism and how it relates to the dynamic on the island.

It’s the years following World War II, and tension is high. A group a British school boys needed to crash their plane in the ocean and swim to the shore of an uninhabited island. The island have pigs, water, and other valuable resources they need in order to survive. Once they appear on the island, they decided to set up rules and laws to govern their miniature society. A twelve year old boy disagrees with the laws they had originally set up and a rebellion starts to brew within the group. Now the trouble begins. This is the plot line of the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Golding claims that fear brings out the worst in people. These rules, originally made for their own comfort, can be compromised by fear. In the case of the The Lord of the Flies, the children fear a creature called beastie. Fear can cause chaos and make people doing things they don’t normally do. The fear brings out the worst in people and it starts with beastie and leads to a the rebellion of Jack, and the demise of Simon and Piggy.

In the Novel lord of the flies, it is evident that the stranded school boys attempt to build a civilization. Throughout the building of this new civilization the most challenging factor is leading the school boys and keeping the young boys on track, which is hard enough let alone being on an island with no adults. This making their civilization fragile. A constant fear is looming around the boys, which in the end is what breaks this fragile society. A fear of many factors including; Being stranded forever possibly, A beast and starvation. These fears divide the group of school boys and blinds the boys from the most important goal, surviving till their rescue.

In Lord of the Flies by Golding, fear is a prevalent theme that recurs a number of times. Fear is most recurring with the character Jack and the way he uses fear to manipulate the group into staying together and doing things they wouldn't normally do.

Imagine this: You’re a young child, still relying on your parents for many things. One day you involved in a plane crash that leaves you and other young children stranded on an island. There is a considerable amount of fear associated with being placed in this unfortunate situation This is exactly what happened in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The group of young boys are stunned after their plane downs on a deserted island, where there concerns include fear the unknown wilderness and death. This fear creates a need for social order and power, which are main components of this piece of literature’s theme.

The novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, explores the unjust societies. The community of Maycomb, Alabama, the novel’s setting, by John Wyndham, fear of the Waknuk society and their treatment of deviations caused Although animal warfare lacks the deliberation and complexity of human warfare, it suggests warfare is also The group’s leaders, named Ralph and Jack, embody the Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Atticus power of fear and how it can limit one’s ability to live a fulfilling life. In the novel, fear public opinions of the conflict. The aggressive defensive measures taken by both countries heightened Ralph and Jack’s differing relationships with a boy called places on justice and compassion.

In a more structured society wherein fear is much more regulated and decreased, the beastie would either have been ignored entirely or a scouting party of some sort would be dispatched to investigate. In fact, as each new problem arises, whether each one is imagined, exaggerated, or reasonable, fear takes even more hold in the children’s minds and they take more and more steps toward savagery. As food becomes more and more scarce, and as the children suffer from various….unfortunate….effects of a diet primarily consisting of fruit, Jack’s tribe, which is already more savage than is Ralph’s group of boys, increases in numbers and its members become panicked. Jack's tribe separates officially from the rest of the boys and becomes a sovereign entity.

Where there is hope, there is fear, fear within a young mind. Fear is what controls people, they can work against or with it. In this novel, these boys decide to work with it and with that they let their terrible fear control and consumed them until they look like savages and turned into the beast.“Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened... The things is-fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.There aren’t any beast to be afraid of on this island...Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of of cry-babies!(82-83)” Jack is one the first who let the evil inside transform him into a complete savage. The way he treats other boys is frankly unkind and uncivil. He overpowered Ralph and ruled like

      The boys in the book, The Lord of the Flies, are controlled by their fear of the beast.  This fear is not of the beast itself, but of the unknown. It comes from not knowing whether or not a beast exists.