Beastie Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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The Unescapable Notion called Fear
Fear, a curse upon human beings which prevents them from exceeding to do good and bad, Eleanor Roosevelt said, “Do one thing that scares you every day”. In the story, the boys experience immediate fear, from crash landing to the nonsense about some “beastie”, But in reality the boys cause all these problems themselves. The suspense and fear grows within them and it results in them making irresponsible decisions. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding the notion of fear is scrutinized. It becomes clear that Fear causes humans to think illogically which results in irrational decisions being made. Evidence of these accusations is when Simon is brutally murdered. This argument uncovers that once law and order …show more content…

I’m afraid of sharks. My Mother is afraid of rats. But in the book, fear takes the form of “beastie”. Almost everyone is terrified of “Beastie”. “Beastie” is firstly introduced when a littelun points out he saw a “snake-thing”. “He wants to know what you are going to do about that snake-thing” (34). Now, further on in the story we discover that “beastie” can take the shape of anything. When Simon is maliciously murdered by the boy’s, Jack convinces the kids that the beast took over Simon and that he can take the form of anything. So far, fear has driven the kids to the point of insanity. As leverage Jack used this as an advantage to take over leadership, the notion of “Beastie” effects every individual differently. Jack, Piggy and Ralph think that the Parachute man’s corpse is beastie, while Simon thinks the pigs severed head is beastie. In the story fear takes role in many shapes to scare these boys to a catastrophic level, which may even result in permanent …show more content…

When Ralph calls for an assembly to talk about “beastie” it evolves into when the boys talk about the fear casting a shadow of the tribe . This minute Piggy says “Unless-…unless what? ...unless we get frightened of people” (90). This is solid evidence that humans can be afraid of each other. This is proven when Piggy and Jack first meet, Jack has harassed Piggy since day one just because he is different, this type of fear is also used when Roger proves how on the island he can get away with anything even murder, he does this by torturing Samneric just for fun and to top it all off he brutally murdera Piggy in cold

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