Fear In Lord Of The Flies Analysis

This illustrates the democratic process between Jack and Ralph on the island. The boys’ response implies that they all want Ralph as their chief because they stay quiet when Jack tells them to vote Ralph out of his leadership position. Eventually, some of the littles on the island abandon Ralph and seek refuge with Jack when fear overwhelms them. In the article, “Motivation for Power: Why Do People Want to Be in Charge?” by Jeremy Nicholson, he explains why people want to have power over others.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, what is the beast? Well the beast first represents fear, then war, then savagery of human nature. The beast leads to arguments, fear, and savagery. The beast should not have been in the thoughts of the boys. If only the boys had their parents there with them.

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.

Jack also undermines Ralph's leadership by emphasizing his own ability to protect the boys’, declaring, “We’ll hunt and I'm going to be chief” (Golding 133). These instances illustrate Jacks exploitation of the boys’ fear to establish himself as their protector, thus solidifying his authority over them. Also, Jack capitalizes on the uncertainty surrounding the beast to undermine Ralph's leadership. In presenting himself as a more capable and decisive authority figure, he splits the boys’ fear and confusion about the beast, sowing doubt about Ralph's ability to provide effective leadership and types of

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

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

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 the novel, “Lord of The Flies” by “William Golding”, extensively focuses on the theme of fear and it becomes clear that Humans have dissimilar reactions to traumatic events. One of the greatest emotions that controls the way any person thinks in certain situations. The fear of the beast, was an essential one to the story The Lord of the flies, as it manifests upon by the boy’s fear of being alone. At the nights as they are scared and alone in a new environment, they conjure up an image of a beast because of the beast they killed is Simon and that’s how individuals have disparate responses to traumatic events.

At the beginning of the story, everybody feels something that perhaps they have not felt before, what they all felt is called fear. Everytime someone screamed, saying horrible things to each other, fear was expressed. Fear is something that affects human beings every day by saying and doing actions that we aren't supposed to say or do. Even Though fear is not always affecting us, we still do things wrong. All the things we do, say, and think incorrectly, we do it because we are human beings and we are meant to make mistakes in order to learn from them. The humanity and the fear can affect us as much as affected the boys, we don’t realize the power of them until we actually mix them (like the boys did) and then they produced chaos, even deaths.

Fears of the Island Did you know that 85% of our body is made up of fears? Our brain tends to find anything new as scary. This happens to all of us, but some more often than others. Lord of the Files is the best example to explain young boy's fear.

The boys end up deciding Ralph as their leader instead of Jack which creates tension between Jack and Ralph since Jack becomes more of an argumentative character towards Ralph throughout the fiction. “The boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was he world of longing and baffled

Fear is unique, and can manifest itself in many different ways, like nightmares, or uncertainty before doing an activity that is risky. For many, when the word “fear” is said to them, they think of their worst fears, such as clowns, ghosts, heights, and what not. Yet, on an island on which a plane full of boys crash lands, some uncommon fears lead to total destruction of civilization. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, it it evident that fear can and will eventually tear down the walls of civilization. It all starts when a plane crash lands into the trees of a lost island. The survivors soon meet up one by one along the shore of the island, and it is noteworthy that they are all boys, from the age range of six to twelve years. At once each boy develops their own characteristics with Ralph as their leader, Piggy being the brainiac, Jack the hunter, and many other “littluns” and “bigguns”. However, all is not well for too long, as their stay on the island continues, the boys become more savage-like, due to their fears. The different terrors these boys encounter lead to despicable actions, including two brutal murders. William Golding shows that fear, of all kinds, can lead to the destruction of civilization.

      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.

Fear can take control of humans and manipulate them for evil. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, fear is shown to change the boys into savages from their fears on the island. This fear starts with the younger children and their fears of the dark and unknown. The fear changes throughout the novel and manipulates the boys which Jack uses fear to gain power over the innocent boys.