How Does Golding Present Fear In Lord Of The Flies

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.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of boys stranded on an island with no adults and no rules. Golding believes that humans all have a capability to do wrong, and through The Lord of the flies portrays how certain situations make a human’s capacity for evil more prominent. Golding shows how the boys’ civilization deteriorates from being good British kids to murderous savage people. The novel can easily be connected to the Stanford Prison Experiment, and how what happened to the boys on the island can happen outside the realm of fiction. Golding shows the reader what the Lord of the Flies is in the book and how the namesake of the book is found in all of us.

It is very common for children to fear monsters. Therefore it’s unsurprising when, in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, English schoolboys who are marooned on an island in the midst of a war develop a fear of the mysterious thing they claim is a “Beast”. There is a bundle of possibilities of what the “beast” could symbolize. However, it is surprising to discover that as you read Lord of the Flies, its representation evolves.

Beast? “Kill it! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” WIlliam Golding’s Lord of the FLies is one ofthe most powerful and popular novels of the 20th century, but no one truly knows what the “beast” is, except for Golding himself. The novel begins just after a plane evacuating a group of English schoolboys has been shot down over an unnamed deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.When the boys first land, there is an air of adventure and even celebration at their newfound freedom from grownups, but what the children don’t know is that there is something there with them. As the book goes on, there are many different thought of what this thing is, or some would say what the “beast” is.

Further blinded by the illusion that their supposedly superior English heritage precludes savagery, the boys ignore the perverse qualities of their actions. Nevertheless, they become terrified as they increasingly feel the blight of their own evil upon the island. Attempting to attribute the decay of sanity and civilization to external sources, they fail to look inwards. When Simon correctly proposes that the beast is "maybe. . . only [themselves]" (89), the others scornfully dismiss him as "batty" (52) and his suggestion as invalid; they refuse to acknowledge Simon because they are neither capable nor willing to believe the frightening truth that the evil arises from within themselves. As a result, the boys manifest their fear in a dead parachutist whose appearance they grotesquely distort. Ironically, this source of fear comes from the majestic adult world to which they have so long

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt conveyed human nature in these words, which painted the picture of fear’s grip on our thoughts and actions. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a stranded group of boys transformed to savages as they attempted to extinguish the source of their uneasiness, only they were too late to learn that fright was not something driven away by “a stick sharpened at both ends” (Golding 267). Trepidation was proven to be all controlling throughout Golding's writing as it prompted the juveniles to kill under night’s shadows while pressuring them to act rashly to keep from being hunted by an imaginary monster.

The boys’ psychological fears terrorize them, threatening their survival and causes them to become violent to each other. When the plane crashes, it is implied that for the first time in their lives, the boys are alone and afraid. They do not understand the internal fear and they project it into a physical fear, the beast. Early on as Piggy translates for a littlun,“‘ Now he says it was a beastie.’ ‘Beastie?’ ‘ A snake-thing. Ever so big.He saw it” (34). This idea becomes rooted into the other boys and they develop a fear of this ‘beast’ that takes on multiple figures as the novel progresses, consequently causing a threat to their own survival as they murder Simon thinking he was the so called ‘beast’. Golding writes, “ At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There was no words, and no movements but

Fear is all around, and something many can’t run away from. People's reactions or choices can change in a certain situation when they are in fear for their life or someone else's. In novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of british boys crash land on an abandoned island, forced to with due with what skills they have to build a community without adults. Both the colonial history era of slavery and settlement in New England colonies, and Lord of the Flies show that fear is manipulative and controlling.

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, concerns the nature of savagery and pure evil personified by “the beast” (the darkness inside of us and the boys in the book). But "where could a beast live" in us (81)? What is the beast depicted as in our lives? In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the boys’ fear of a beast to prove their suspicions that evil comes from other entities rather than from themselves. This essay will show that not only does evil manifest inside of people like in the book, but it also affects people in the real world.

After Jack goes off to hunt, Ralph finds him and describes him, “The forest near them burst into uproar. Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling...stark naked save for the paint and a belt was Jack” (125). Soon after the boys arrive on the island, Jack has turned to hunting with a painted face and a spear. Though back home he would probably not be prone to violence, being on an island with no adult supervision is enough to make the boys forget about their civil lives. The boys later go as far as to accidentally kill one of their own, Simon, “ The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (136). The boys think that the beast is a mysterious creature when it is in fact Simon, one of the boys. In a mad rage, the hunters end up killing him, with Ralph and Piggy watching. The boys start as cultured boys with manners and end up as brutal killers. The book argues that the spirit of war, or savagery was in them all along, and was simply brought out because of the change of the environment from a society and a family to a desert

He talks of a slithering object at night that tries to get him while he is asleep. There are many other accounts of a beast, even a pig’s head and a parachutist who did not make it. The Beast represents the fear that the boys have and everyone. The Beast is altered or changed depending on the boy who speaks of it because they are all scared and afraid of what might be out there or what might come to be. However, after Simon is killed and the parachutist is gone, they believe the beast is gone.

During the time that the boys lived on the secluded section of land, they fell victim to their imagination; creating something so horrid just because a little boy with a birth mark got lost. The imaginations determined their fate, “I saw something big and horrid in the trees” (91). This first statement drives the downfall that is The Beast. The boys become wild with thoughts of where The Beast

During the boys’ initial weeks on the island, they encounter a dead pilot but think he is a beast. This occurs after a long while, and through fear and primitive lifestyle they changed significantly. Simon, one of the boys, discovers there is no beast, it is merely the savagery within the boys. The beast itself represents their human nature as primal, as said in the book, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter.

Some people in the act of a beast, whether in a fit of rage, mercy, or fear, soon find that the real monster is what they have become (unknown). In William Golding's Novel The Lord of the flies A dominant theme is the monster within all mankind. This Essay will be discussing the symbolism that Golding’s used to show the constant battle between good and evil within all humans. In The Lord of the flies a group of British boys are stranded on an island, and at first all seems well on the outside, but it is soon proven that monsters are not just creatures in the night, but the product of the fear inside the hearts of all man. While the boys are stranded on the island, trying to establish order and leadership, they fall into the natural savage

In the novel Lord of The Flies, written by William Golding talks about a group of boys who survived a plane crash and were stranded on an island where there are no adults and have to learn to survive or try to get rescued. Throughout the book the boys are being faced with numerous fears on the island. The boys are exposed to all the dangers on this island one of them is the beast. The kids are afraid of this beast and become more and more savages through everything that has happened to them. The kids are frightened of this beast. The beast represents terror, evil, and darkness. As the boys hunt for this beast they release some type of animal behavior. In the Lord of The Flies, the kids are afraid of the unknown beast and do not realize the beast is themselves; this essay will prove that the beast is themselves because everyone in this island shows savagery, cruelty, unfairness.