Fear In Lord Of The Flies

Fear, what is it? If you google it it says that it means:” an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.” We’ve all gone through fear one way or another, because it’s human nature; a survival instinct. But in modern day life, we have certain comfortability set into place so that these fears don’t come out of hand and become all you think about. But, what if these boundaries aren’t set up? What happens? This is what we see in the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The book is about a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island with no adults to help due to a plane crash. In the end of it, the attempted governed system was

The first time we see this in the first chapter, “The Sound Of The Shell” where the “fair haired”and “fat boy” meet,"Wait a minute," the voice said. "I got caught up." The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties……. "Where's the man with the megaphone?" The fair boy shook his head. "This is an island. At least I think it's an island. That's a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there aren't any grownups anywhere." The fat boy looked startled.¨ (Golding, 4). In this quote, both Ralph and Piggy meet up and become friends, because they realize that they are on an abandoned island with no adults. This is important to the claim because without the complete shock and realization of them both realizing that they were stuck, they would not have become friends. That is why I believe Golding describes the two characters the way he did in the beginning of the book, because he knows because of appearance and the broad generalizations people make with appearance, that this would of never happened if it were not for

Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them. Suddenly, pacing by the water, he was overcome with astonishment. He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.¨ (Golding,58) This shows the effect of fear because it shows the sight of the ocean makes him overthink, and when you think too much, it can make you