What Is The Fear Of Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

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.

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.

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is an allegory that connects the boys’ behavior in the novel to the basic behavior of human nature. In the novel, the boys fear a wild beast that has the potential to kill them off. However, Simon, a quiet boy, finds that the beast is not an animal that everyone should fear, but is a part of each boy himself.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is an allegory that explores the instinctual evil humans possess and how this evil manifests into our societies. The book demonstrates this through young boys who are stranded on an island due to a plane crash. Despite their best efforts, the lack of adult guidance inhibits the boys from maintaining an orderly society. The boys turn to their survival instincts, many of which are evil. The lack of order exposes the internal savagery within the boys, resulting in an understanding of the flaws within all humanity. The Lord of the Flies uses the innocence of young boys to show the societal impact of human errors through their lack of adult supervision, the desire to inflict violence, and the need for authority over others.

      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.

Humans savagely turn against each other when they feel it would better them. One could say that there is no hope for humankind and that evil is an inborn trait of people, and in the novel, these two things go hand in hand together. In the Lord of the Flies, it portrays these ideas very well because it shows and explains how British school boys turn to savages because of the island.The boys’ shift to savagery was not gradual and this change in tone allowed many to come to a realization.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a classic novel and portrays just how the society surrounding us can corrupt our once pure nature No one is born a killer, no one is born with an intense compulsion to kill, the island that the boys are stranded on has a very unusual, corrupting society; A society that erodes the boys innocence through the power struggle between Jack and Ralph, readers see the transfer from innocent to savagely through the hunting and Piggy’s death.

The Lord Of The Flies is a Nobel prize winning novel, written by William Golding. Who was an English teacher in 1930’s. The novel is about a group of young British school boys who find themselves deserted on an island in the Pacific Ocean and are forced to fight for themselves. This has a unique symbolism of characters and the events. The young boys don’t know how to fight for themselves and turn into complete savages by the end of the Novel and they have some freedom from the adult rules they are familiar with back at home.

Sometimes fear can be shown through external things, or sometimes, fear can lie internally. The Lord of the Flies was a twisted situation that shows what can happen to a group of unattended boys that are left to fend for themselves on a stranded island. They begin to develop a fear of the “beast”, which is what they think is the monster of the island. From an outsiders perspective, “the beast” could be perceived as the fear of an actual “monster-like” beast, the hypocrisy of war, or the evil that lies within us.

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.

“The only thing you have to fear is fear itself”- FDR. Boys stranded on an island try to overcome conflict between each other and with themselves without the presents of adults and the question if they will get off of the island or not. In chapter 9 Jack had a feast with his tribe and his power is portrayed through the luxury that his tribe was giving him. After the feast Jack ordered everyone to start chanting and to circle around the fire. The changting got out of control and Simon ended up being mistaken as the beast and killed. In chapter 9 of Lord of the Flies, William Golding employs natural imagery, symbolism, and figurative language. to convey the theme that fear can drive people to do things they normally wouldn't and resort to

Throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding, fear is the cause of all the struggles that take place on the island. In the beginning every boy fears the “beast” which somewhat brings all of them together, but the longer their on the island the more they develop other fears which separates the group as Jack's hunters and Ralph's group. Ralph says during the first assembly “Then people started getting frightened” (83). Ralph could see from early on that the overwhelming fear of the beast will cause them to break up and fight. Even though the all the boys are afraid of the beast they also feel panic towards Jack and Roger. Ralph especially is frightened by Jack and his hunters because he is the one being hunted. Fear of the

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs” (George R. R. Martin). A human is made up of both savage and civil sides and the conditions that they are out in determine which side of their personality they will show. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there is a group of boys who are stranded on an island. The boys show different sides of their personalities and most of them give into their primal instincts because they need to survive. Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the characters -Jack, Roger, Ralph- to display the different sides of humankind through the conflict of civilization and savagery.

In like manner, savagery within humans will confront civilization head on. The confrontation is so intense between the two that they are at war with each other. Both sides would do anything to take control of people. In Lord of the Flies, Jack interrupts Ralph at a meeting when Jack does not have the conch. He is trying to demonstrate his importance in front of his hunters. Ralph and Jack appear the be the main characters in the book, and they are constantly bashing heads. While Ralph is trying to bring the other boys back to civilization, it appears that Jack is taking more drastic measures. He interrupts another meeting for a ritual dance. Additionally, Ralph and Jack begin fighting with spears. While they were both fighting with the weapons