The Beast In Lord Of The Flies Literary Analysis

When people think of a beast, a few ideas may come to mind. The monster that lives under your bed, a creature with fangs, or abomination waiting in the dark. But how often does one consider that the scariest beast may be humans themselves? In Sir WIlliam Golding’s novel “The Lord of the Flies,” boys stranded on a remote island are terrorized by a beast, similarly to some children and even adults in the real world. However, the events and actions of Jack and Ralph in Golding’s novel illustrate that the beast is really humans themselves, and their unending selfishness throughout the story.

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us,.” said William Golding, Lord of the Flies. When a symbol is examined, many conclusions can be drawn by relating the symbol to society and real life. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, even though the beast does represent something one can hurt or kill, as a symbol it represents a larger concept or idea because it brings out the beast-like personalities of the boys on the island, illustrates Jack’s dominant personality, and portrays the personalities inside all of us which humans can never defeat.

The Youngins, are well, young. These boys are all alone, on an island, so if anything they do not understand happens, they have to have an excuse. Thus the Beast comes into play. The boys are scared of the beast at night also, because this is when they cannot see what's going on. Thus blaming the beast for everything. Ralph laughed, and the other boys laughed with him. The small boy twisted further into himself."Tell us about the snake-thing." "Now he says it was a beastie." "Beastie?" "A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it." "Where?' "In the woods.” "He says the beastie came in the dark."(35). The younger boys, are very scared of the so called “Beast” even claiming to see it. But, they are scared just more than just the fact that there is something on the island. It is the fact that they can not explain everything that is happening on the island. So, it is safe to say, that in Lord Of the Flies, the Beast means way more than just a literal monster, and resembles all the problems that are happening, to the

Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The beast starts off as a series of nightmares and stories amongst the littluns, or the smaller boys. However, this rumored beast turns out to be existent, and as some of the boys begin to embrace darkness, the identity of the beast becomes clear. The beast represents a primitive nature that all of the boys have within themselves. Fear causes their society to fall apart, and it encourages primitive behavior.

Initially, when the “beast” is first introduced, it represents fear. According to Claire Rosenfield in her physiological analysis of Lord of the Flies, The boys are petrified by the island in the absence of "consoling mothers," and they personify their fears into a "beast" (DOC A). We see this in the article "Now he says it was a beastie" (Document B) when the boy with the mulberry birthmark tries to explain it: "He says he saw the beastie, the snake-thing, and will it come back tonight?' ' But there isn't a beastie!" (DOC B)

Even though the symbolic idea of the beast in Lord of the Flies goes through many changes, they all are connected. Fear of the others turns into war, and what is war if not the expression of the savagery of humans. The symbolism of the beast doesn’t really change, it just becomes more recognizable as the story goes on. The reader is forced to come to the realization with the simple fact that the beast is in all of

In the beginning of Lord of The Flies, the author first recognized the beast as a representation of fear. The author claims in Document A that Claire Rosefield interprets it as a symbol of fear. The text states that there are “no comforting mothers to dispel the terrors of the unknown” and that “they externalize these fears into the figure of a beast.” In Document B, the image of fear becomes clear. Golding starts further developing this image when the boy with the mulberry birthmark claims to have seen the beast.

It’s very common for children to fear monsters, but it didn’t come as a shock when in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of children were stranded on an island in the midst of a war. Consequently, the children’s fear started to develope into the mysterious figure called the “beast”. The beast has multiple symbolic meanings behind it.

“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.

Everyone as a kid was scared of something, and maybe it was a beast, or the boogeyman. The novel The Lord of the Flies was about a group of boys who’s plane is struck down, they land on an island and slowly start to turn to savagery in the end of the book. There is a beast that has an influence on the boys. The beast presents itself as a number of things. So, what is the beast? The beast is simply the human nature of mankind showing the dark side of itself in these boys, but it also shows itself as war, and their own fears.

Explain the emergence and rise of the beast in Lord of the flies by William Golding: Introduction. (1911 - 1993) Golding wrote Lord of the Flies shortly after learning of the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust. Here is some information about him. He was born in 1911 at Saint Columb Minor in Cornwall, England, Sir William Gerald Golding was educated at the Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and later at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Within a single day, the lives of a group of young boys, aged six to twelve, changed forever. After a plane wreck, the British children were trapped on a deserted island without adult supervision for months during World War II. The author of this story specifically chose to use young boys instead of girls because he felt boys better represented the savagery of mankind. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the beast first represents the boys’ imagination and fear, then a physical entity, and finally, the evil within everyone.

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.

All throughout this novel the boys are called to meetings to discuss the rules, the fire, and many other assorted things. One of these things is a beast that comes in the night but does not leave foot prints or any trail at any time. All the boys are very afraid of this beast and what it may do to them if it gets hold of them. As it turns out the beast is in the boys: "'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?'"(172). This is the "lord of the flies," also known as the beast, talking to Simon the first boy murdered. The beast is their unwillingness to maintain a civilization; it is their transformation into savages. All the time at all these meetings the boys respect the conch and whoever held the conch was respected, even if he was not liked. Once this symbol of

The Beast in the novel occupies many entities. The Beast symbolically represents fear in the novel. It’s what causes or provokes the darkness and savagery throughout the boys. The Beast is first introduced as a snake that the one of the little ‘uns saw. “ It was a beastie… A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it” (Golding 35). The little boy is the only one that is scared and they all ignore the little boy and though that it was a nightmare he just had. The Beast also becomes a dead soldier that parachuted out of his plane. Sam and Eric comes across The Beast when they were going to light the fire. They become terrified thinking that the soldier was alive and a creature. Sam and Eric ran back to camp to tell the others and “The circle of boys