Beastie Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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

are broken, society begins to collapse.
Everybody is afraid of something right?

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

paranoia.
The book displays fear in an awful way in Lord of the Flies itself. The book explains how fear is inside everyone. Simon supposedly talks with Lord of the Flies, when in reality he is hallucinating due to water deprivation. When Lord of the Flies and Simon talk we learn that fear is not an outside obstacle it is in fact an inner emotion, “You knew, didn’t you? I’m apart of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (158). this is quote is referring to fear inside the boys, fear that separated them, disabled them to think logically. Wherever they are fear will never leave their side. A curse that forever haunts them.

William Golding magnified the dreadful emotion of fear in the novel by describing how people can bully one another.

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

blood.

Overall the writer uses the fear of other people skillfully, and takes his own personal experience from war and descriptively engrains that experience within his writing which causes a rush of a certain thrill. Which again could be due to our inner savagery.
These three reasons clearly tell us that all humans experience fear, and that fear is within everyone, though depending on the individual it may vary. Almost all fear is constructed within the brain, the book dives into the diverse amount of fear and uses it in a brilliant fashion. In the novel all the characters confront fear head on and they all react to fear in various ways.