Fear In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

A major theme of the action-adventure story Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is that fear controls humanity more than reason. In most catastrophic situations, many humans make half-witted situations as the fear has been proven to inhibit the actions taken by the victim of the incident. However, in this scenario, the boys in the novel do not have the ability to ‘move on’ from their current crisis; as they have become isolated on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and with no way of telling how long it will be until they are rescued. Golding explores the theme in the novel that fear controls humanity more than reason when Ralph discovers the conch among the bank of the leaves in the first chapter of the novel; then proceeds to

This symbol fights off that sense of fear as the conch is implemented in this story to relieve the sense of fear. This fact is a direct connection to Ralph can be looked at as an annoying character in the novel. Also, in the quote, “‘S'right. It's a shell! I seen one like that before. On someone's back wall. A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable-’” (Golding 15). The main speaker in this quote is Piggy, directing his statement at Ralph. The quote describes the fact to the reader that the conch is described as grabbing the attention of the other people that may have survived the plane accident. The narrator views the symbol positively, as when Ralph sounds the conch for the first time, the other boys come to the general location where they heard the conch shell being blown. The boys view the conch as being a positive figure in their timespan when they are on the island. In the indicated moment, the other boys have contradicting ideas about the symbolism of the

It has been displayed that the conch is described as grabbing the attention of the other people that may have survived the plane accident, how Ralph uses human logic to show that there is a resolution to every difficult problem, and last, the spark that emulates the boys’ last moments on the island. Another moment in the novel that relates directly to the theme that fear controls humanity more than reason is in the quote, "Exposure to the sun had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white, and transparency. Ralph felt a kind of affectionate reverence for the conch, even though he had fished the thing out of the lagoon himself" (Golding 78). This quote suggests that the conch can be a see-through object, since it has no serious intentions. Given these points, the boldest theme in the story Lord of the Flies is that fear controls humanity more than