Lord Of The Flies Beast

Throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies, the boys on the island are continuously faced with numerous fears. Subsequently there is nothing on the island which they fear more than the beast. The beast is not a tangible object that can be killed or destroyed by conventional means, but an idea symbolizing the primal savage instincts within all people. Its Golding’s intention to illustrate the innate evil inside man through his view of human nature, the actions of the Jack and his tribe, and the relationship between the beast and the school boys.

“They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition” (Golding 138). Once an offering to the “beast”, the pig’s head swarming with flies that had been severed by Jack and placed on a stick, manifests into the Lord of the Flies, representing pure evil. Simon, embodying the goodness of man and peace stumbles upon the head. The interaction between Simon and the Lord of the Flies is almost an interpretation between good and evil. The strong symbolism in this book gives a deeper meaning and a definite truth

During the meeting where the boys are questioning the reality of the beast, Simon says this,”What I mean is...maybe it’s only us”(Golding 89). While everyone else is debating on whether or not the beast is real, Simon is trying to propose that the actual beast is the boys themselves in the form of their savage impulses. Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast as the evil nature of humans instead of a physical being. The Lord of the Flies confirms Simon’s thought, saying,”Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!...You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!”(Golding 143). This establishes that the only thing to fear on the island is the evil human instinct inside of

The encounter with the Lord of the Flies supports Simon’s thoughts that the beast that the boys are hunting for is not an actual animal. The Lord of the Flies tries to persuade Simon to let go of his rational thoughts and be taken over by his primal instincts in order to have fun like the other boys. However, when Simon’s silence declares that he refuses to let go of logic and rationality, the Lord of the Flies realizes that Simon knows what the beast really is—the innermost part of the boys. Simon seems to make this connection that the Lord of the Flies is representational to the inner beast within the boys almost instantly. “His gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition”(Golding 139). Simon instantly The Lord of the Flies quickly makes the connection, too. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding, 1 ). The Lord of the Flies is symbolic to all the evil that is in humans. As Simon realizes that he was right about the beast, he tries to go back to the other boys to warn them about his discovery, but the Lord of the Flies gets angry. “This is ridiculous. You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there—so don’t try to

The tragedies that unfold their civilization occur when they brutally beat Simon to death. After Jack and his hunters place the mother sow’s head in the forest as an offer to the beast they think exists, Simon encounters it and sees that it is covered in flies. Suddenly, the head started to talk to Simon as he feels like he is going to faint. It identifies itself to be the Lord of the Flies. It says, “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding 158). Simon then realizes that there is no physical beast, but a mental beast in each and every boy on the island. They all went from being joyful to a bunch of savages. Their

“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well. We were happy.” (Golding 87). In this statement, Ralph realizes that his life, and those of the others’ on the island, is going to hit rock-bottom. All goes terribly wrong when the beast is introduced by the littlun with the mulberry patch on his face in Chapter 2. The beast is the reason for all the chaos in Lord of the Flies. The beast is an imaginary creature that frightens all the boys, and yet, it stands symbolically for the savagery that exists within all human beings. As the boys develop their fear and grow more and more certain of the presence of a beast, they also become more and more savage. William Golding uses the beast as a way to show the demise of the boys while they are on the island. The beast represents the irrational fear that exists within man, the savage monster within us all, and the ability for man to use intimidation to gain ultimate power.

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are stuck on an island by themselves in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. During this time Golding takes humans back to their roots of evil, and shows how no person is different in how far they will go. The beast in Lord of the Flies helps represent this in how it reveals the fear of the boys. The beast does represent other things that push the boys over the edge, satan is one of those things. By the end the boys have become savages because of this beast they have created inside their head.

A crashing plane comes down hard after being shot down during WWII and leaves a band of school boys stranded on a untouched, tropical island and the story of Lord Of The Flies begins to unfold as the terrified children recuperate from the crash. As the boys explore the island, fear from the unknown, and anger from the reoccurring conflict and disagreement, begins to rear its ugly head. Much of these fearful and evil feelings are beginning to create the beast itself. The mindset of there being a beast changed the boys for the worst throughout the novel. The children soon overcame their fears and became savages of war and conflict. From this fear and conflict, they became the beast themselves.

“Maybe ... maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us”(William Golding). In the novel Lord of The Flies, William Golding exhibits the symbolism and representation of the beast. The beast represents the norm of society and how most citizens are conceived to evil. As the novel progresses, the reader's perspective of the beast transforms from a possibly harmful animal into to a representation of human civilization and how humans are ignorant and oblivious when it becomes survival of the fittest. The concept of the beast changes significantly during the novel from first the beast on land, then to the beast in the air and finally to the beast within the kids themselves.

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Golding utilizes the idea of a beast as a symbol to articulate the human impulse towards savagery. Golding foreshadows how the beast does not exist when Simon says “Maybe, maybe there is a beast … what I mean is … maybe it’s only us” (89). The quote reveals that the beast does not physically exist. Simon’s words show that the beast is just a personification of the primal instinct toward cruelty inlaid in humanity. Towards the end of the book, the boys seem identical to brutes that drop their spears and “ screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (153). Samneric’s description of the beast at the start of the book

American philosopher and author HP Lovecraft once wrote that “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This is illustrated when discussing the beast in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a classic novel, in which a plane carrying British schoolboys crashes onto a deserted island and the boys are forced to create a civilization of their own for any chance at survival. However, many challenges get in the way of any sort of functioning society. The beast, or “beastie” to the boys, an unknown force that serves as a metaphor for the fear that the boys feel throughout the novel, plays an increasingly major role as time goes on. However, many of the main characters have

Imagine sitting on an airplane, then all of a sudden you wake up and find yourself stranded on an uncharted island. Your palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms heavy. When all the adults have died and you are the only person alive with a group of boys on the break of adolescence… Without an adult how will one survive? In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies there are many characters that are perceived as savages. When an airplane crashes on an undiscovered island, the only survivors are young boys. Throughout the novel, the boys fight for their survival, but many fear that there is a beast who may be lurking on the island. As the boys were once moral, their innocence slowly disintegrates away and they turn into their true form, a bloodthirsty savage. Perhaps the beast is within themselves.

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us” (Golding 35), this quote given by Simon in the book Lord of the flies by William Golding, gives a good brief major point being made in Lord of the Flies. In this book, the given genre to be shown is an allegory, and realistic fiction. This book is about a group of private school boys that are in a plane crash on a deserted island. Eventually two separate groups between the boys, which they all have to choose between are formed, one group leader is Jack and the other leader of a group is Ralph. One thing all the boys have in common is that they’re all fighting to survive against each other, and something known as the “beast”. Jack demonstrates more characteristics of a strong dictator, while Ralph

In this chapter, the boys all confirm that the Beast is present within in the island, thus causing the older boys on the island to come up with different strategies to handle the Beast. First, when the Beast is confirmed to be present, both Ralph and Piggy suggest to keep the fire going, and not bother it. Since the Beast is on the mountaintop, Piggy comes up with the solution to move the fire to the beach. Just as Ralph and Piggy, Jack also believes that him and his group of hunters should let the beast be. However, instead of completely leaving it alone, Jack decides it is best to offer it occasional sacrifices from their food, as a symbol of a peace offering. Alone from either groups of boys, Simon suggests that they march up the mountain,

This sentence is spoken in chapter eight to one of the boys named Simon by a dead pig, or the lord of the flies as it is referred to. Simon had passed out in the previous chapter and awoke to a hallucination of this pig talking to him. Simon is a special character in the book. He is always shown to be kind and caring even when everyone else appears to be going mad. He is used to represent a small amount of good while the rest of the island falls into evil. It was no accident that he was the one this line was spoken too. He was the only person that the savagery couldn't corrupt so he was the only one able to discover the truth about the beast. He had suspicions that the beast was inside the boys, not an actually physical being, but this vision confirms it for him. The lord of the flies even asks “you knew, didn’t you?” proving that all along Simon had known subconsciously the real beast was