Lord Of The Flies Fear

Jack respects Ralph as a leader and another alpha, however deems himself the higher qualified to lead the group; bringing forth a vote for a chief. However, the choir boy followers weren’t strong enough in numbers to counter the seemingly endless supply of little kids that voted for Ralph. After this unexpected result, Jack develops an instant grudge towards his only competition for power. Ralph begins to form a democratic society solely focused on rescue; yet jack has other plans in agenda. Under Ralph’s seemingly boring command, Jack develops other outputs for his primal necessity of dominance. Jack begins focusing on the task of hunting animals and finding weaker beings to prey on. Jack even blatantly leaves the rescue fire to chase after a pig; had he not have done so, the group could have possibly been rescued by the boat passing by during the fire’s absence. Once Jack finally has enough of going in circles with Ralph, he makes the decision to shake off Ralph’s influence and create his own niche. Within Jack’s tribe, lifestyle is greatly different to that of one designed by Ralph. Jack and his followers seemingly devolve into primal beings, as Jack gets his fill of power. Control over others was all that Jack longed for, with a crazed and burning

"Bollocks to the rules! We're strong--we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat--!" He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. At once the platform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams and laughter. The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.” (Golding,PDF,70) This quote is showing that Jack is a good leader. Ralph is making the other boys scared of the beast, but Jack is getting the boys excited to go and do something about the beast. Like a good leader would do in this situation. Jack doesn’t want the boys to be scared of the beast anymore, so he gets them to come with him so they can face their fears, and not be scared anymore of the beast. Jack’s leadership is getting to the boys, since Jack has natural leadership and can hunt, and can protect

By disobeying Ralph’s rules, Jack is trying to weaken the rules. Jack still has an effect on the boys, and his breaking of rules weakens the their will to follow them. In a later meeting, Jack claims that Ralph “isn’t a proper chief” and that “[he’s] going off by [himself].” Jack’s departure weakens Ralph’s tribe, since the choir has been with Jack before the crash on the island, and showed loyalty to him on the island. This results in a majority of the boys abandon Ralph for Jack. Some of the non-choir boys go off with Jack’s tribe, because of the beast they want protection from. They believe his hunters will supply that. Jack is no longer under control, but is now in control. Jack’s department of the tribe, and weakening of the boy’s opinion on Ralph leads to his desire for power being satisfied.

One could say fear is the most powerful feeling, the fight or flight mechanism. Putting a handful of boys on a desert island would not seem frightening but William Golding’s Lord of the Flies might beg to differ. In the story, Golding sets his story on a deserted island when a plane full of British schoolboys crash and are stranded without any adults. The boys soon realize their predicament and are overcome with fear when the theory of a beast comes into their thoughts. The effect this fear leads them to is terrifying; one could say it was true human nature that came into play. The only boy who seems to know exactly what is going on is Piggy while the other boys seem almost oblivious

By using their fear against the tribe, he makes them feel like Jack can protect them. Jack is very manipulative for that reason. Jack taunted Ralph into doing something with

Everyone faces fears in their life that affect them on an emotional and sometimes even physical level. Peoples’ fear can determine how they view life, what they are open to doing, and who they will look to for direction. Many authoritarian leaders use this fear to gain control of their citizens. This idea of using this fear to gain control is demonstrated strongly throughout William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Jack Merridew, a central character in the novel, uses the fear of the beast in order to gain and maintain control on the island.

Firstly, when Jack is being stubborn, it causes conflict between him and Ralph. “‘You wouldn’t care to help with the shelters, I suppose?’ ‘We want meat-’ ‘We don’t get any!’ Now the antagonism was audible.” (Golding 51). Jack only cares about one thing, hunting. He doesn’t care if the other hunters help him or not, he just wants to hunt. This made him stubborn to the fact that he wouldn’t let himself do anything else, but hunt. He cares more for hunting rather than being rescued, no matter who gets in the way. This also causes conflict with Ralph because he wants to get their priorities done, like building shelters or keeping the fire going, but Jack would rather focus more of his time on hunting.

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

The first fear to arise in Lord of the Flies is a fear of abandonment, for a group of young English school boys that were in a plane crash while in the process of fleeing the war. The boys may feel like the have no home or place they belong. When they are on an uninhabited island and stuck with no one older then thirteen to lead them. When Piggy and Ralph meet, Piggy shows his sense of abandonment when he says “They’re all dead,’ said piggy an this is an island. Nobody don’t know we’re here.” (Goulding 9) This feeling of being abandoned ignites the fear in the young boys, and paves the path for the fear grow like fire. As if abandonment is not enough piggy shortly after brings up an even scarier topic, “We may stay here till we die.” (10). Being abandoned is a harsh feeling, but an even scarier feeling is dying, dying

Fear is a very strong emotion. It’s created by the thoughts we create in our minds. We can all choose whether we listen to those thoughts or if we push it to the back of our minds and carry on with our day. Sometimes fear is good. It tells us that we should get out of a dangerous situation or place. Other times, it can be evil. It controls and sabotages us. It haunts us everyday. Controlling people, like Jack, use it to their advantage. Other people, like Ralph, push them to the back of their minds and focus on the more important things in life. Simon comes face to face with the fear and evil.

Lord of the Flies also shows about fearing the unknown is that fear only impacts you as much as you allow it to. In the book, Piggy tells the other boys that, “So this is a meeting to find out what’s what...can’t hurt you anymore than a dream,” (Golding 82). Piggy’s message shows that he has realized the fear of the unknown can only affect him if he allows it to and once he gets over it; he can start accomplishing his goals like getting off the island.

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.

In this moment Jack is leaving the group because he thinks that Ralph should not be the chief. Jack claims that Ralph is not a hunter because he never got them meat and he gives them orders to do. Jack called Ralph a coward because he ran away from the beast while he and Roger did not, but in reality all three of the boys ran away. Jack is upset because none of the boys voted for Jack to be the new chief. This is significant because this is when Jack makes his own tribe so that he could be leader. Jack thinks this is a whole game because he says “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you” and he makes his own tribe so he can have fun (127). I would consider this a bad change for Jack because he made his own tribe so he could be chief and

“Only thing we have to fear is fear itself” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, many might find this strange considering people are scared of many things such as heights, the dark, monsters, but as seen in Lord of the Flies by William Goldberg it is the fear that leads to the downfall of the characters, not what they fear. The novel narrates a story of a group of young boys who get stranded on an island without any adults, and over time go from civilized boys to savages. They find themselves in a constant state of fear, fear that they will not get off the island and fear of what lies in the jungle. Their fear manifests itself as a beast which does not allow the boys to think rationally and work together. It leads them to violence and heartlessness towards each other because they are only concerned for themselves. This constant fear the boys experience causes them to act irrationally, lose their understanding of themselves and ultimately leads to their savagery.