Fear In Lord Of The Flies Analysis

the novel the Lord of the Flies, fear is the root of the trouble that

      All of this fear starts at one of the very first assemblies when a littlun says that he saw a beastie in the forest.  "Now he says it was a beastie"

Fear can control a lot of things, and can make people do some things they wouldn’t normally think about. It can pull people together, or push them apart. In Lord of the Flies it pushes the boys apart. But in The Village it pulls them together. In both cases, the fear wasn’t real. The beast from LOTF and “those they don’t speak of” in The Village. Fear plays a big role in both of these. I believe fear is an easy thing to overuse and control people with, in LOTF and The Village they use fear as a way of power and controlment.

“The thing is - fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream.”(Golding, 116). Ralph’s opinion on fear is stated on this quote. Ralph is a character from William Golding’s esteemed book, Lord of the Flies.

There are many emotions that do many different things but one of the most destructive of them all is fear. fear is everywhere is the world around us it is a part of everyday lives and it is around every corner waiting. There's only one thing worse than fear itself and that's fear of the unknown. In the novel The Lord Of The Flies fear is brought to a new level of destructiveness when it comes to people's emotions. In the novel fear is a destructive emotion is many ways.

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 These rules, originally made for their own comfort, can be compromised by fear.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.

A distressing emotion aroused by impending evil and pain, whether the threat is real or imagined is described as fear. Fear is what William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies encompasses. By taking three major examples from the novel, fear will be considered on different levels: Simon’s having no instance of fear, Ralph’s fear of isolation on the island, and Jack’s fear of being powerless. Fear can make people behave in ways that are foreign to them, whether their fear is real or imagined. In response to fear, people may act defensively by attacking, fear can either stop one from doing something, or it can make one behave in an irrational erratic manner.

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of unfamiliar English schoolboys’ plane crashes on an uninhabited island while trying to escape the dangers of the war going on in Britain. These boys have different upbringings and range in age. During their stay here they have to become independent because there are no adults on the island with them. Throughout their experiences on the island fear develops in all of the boys at some point, though what they are afraid of varies. The fear they endure weakens and sometimes strengthens their mini society. Fear is a very powerful force in humans and can alter the way man and his civilization behaves and reacts to certain situations. Lord of the Flies shows fear of the imagined beast, fear of losing

We might all have been in a situation where we did something bad just to fit in. Your partner was insulting another group member, and you joined him out of the fear of being the odd one out. You knew that he was doing something bad and instead of stopping it you joined in. You had the fear of being excluded and it made you do something you might not do. Which Golding explains in his book, Lord of the Flies, how the children in the book are afraid from a beast, and it caused them to kill one of their own.

away at them both. It can make you feel as if nothing exists but that

This “beast” has become glorified in the modern world; from movies to novels, to written assignments in schools. It’s the possibility; what could be. It’s the figment of imagination that plagues everyone at some point in their lives. The beast is fear itself; a disease that affects each and every

A silver, bright military plane hurtles through the sky, holding a whole school of British students seeking safety from the war outside, but is shot down where it crashes in the microcosm of an island in a dense jungle. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is like a macrocosm full of hidden ideas and symbols. Blowing a sleek, white conch shell, Ralph assumes the highest position as chief, reuniting the boys and setting up a society. Basic survival instincts and ingenuity from the students would allow them to last as long as possible, but after rivalries form, they face destruction as the decisions they would make would decode the dark abysses of human nature. As the two groups debate for the best choices, a mysterious power known as “The Beast”

Ralph sat there, the waves crashing against the side of the boat, the wind whistling around them.  The boys were scattered about as much as possible though there wasn’t much space on the boat, the hunters on one side, Ralph and the littluns on the other.  When looking around Ralph saw a lot of sorry, dirty looking faces with red eyes and runny noses.  The captain entered, his shirt covered in sweat. Silence filled the room.

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.