The concept of fear is rather simple on first glance, but rather powerful on analysis. Fear can be thought of as an acronym for false evidence appearing real, and this evidence appearing real can be manipulative, destructive, or maybe even beneficial. In the Lord of the Flies and the Book Thief, fear is a common factor in the character’s decisions. Fear can take many forms, but also have many forms. For instance fear can act as a powerful force in general that causes an immense change. Fear can also have a strong negative impact, but fear can have a strong positive impact as well. Throughout Lord of the Flies and The Book Thief, the authors use fear as a powerful force that manipulates and changes the lives of their characters. The authors …show more content…
are portraying fear as a force that can not only manipulate and destroy, but also cause positive impacts and bring people together. Fear is used in The Book Thief and Lord of the flies in a way that can drive characters apart and destroy relationships.
In the Book Thief, it is fear that caused Max to be driven away from the Hubermanns. As a result of Hans feeding bread to a enslaved Jew during a parade, Max was forced to flee. As a matter of fact “Max was gone, and Hans Hubermann was to blame.”(Zusak, 399). Max left due to fear, and as a result this created a negative impact among Liesel as she was very close to him. Furthermore, the factor of fear is what influences Liesel to contact her Mother. Liesel was learning letter writing at school and she took this as an opportunity to reach out to her mother, she asks Hans “Would I be able to write a letter to Mama?”(Zusak, 96), as she hopes her mother is still alive. However Hans and Rosa have a more clear picture of reality, in a discussion Hans says that “I couldn't say no” and Rosa later says that “She should just forget her. Who knows where she is? Who knows what they’ve done to her”(Zusak, 96). It is clear that Liesel’s mother has most likely been killed, or is in a position that would not allow for communications. Liesel fears this too, but she still tries in hope of hearing from her mother. Similarly, fear is also employed as a negative power in Lord of the flies. Jack, a fairly controlling individual in Lord of the Flies is generally a person to be feared. However Jack has fears of his own, and he shows these fears as his thirst for power consumes …show more content…
him. Jack fears that the children will gravitate towards Ralph, which would make Ralph more powerful. As a result Jack employs the tactic of Fear on the Littluns, as he fears he would not have as much power. In a speech before Jack separates from Ralph’s tribe, Jack tells the littluns that he will be working to combat the beast in his camp. This is significant beacause .In addition,fear of not being rescued leads to hasty decisions.As a result, both Lord of the Flies and the Book Thief show that fear has a negative impact on the author’s characters. Although fear has a negative effect in Lord of the Flies and the Book Thief, Fear also has a positive impact that brings characters together and creates bonds. In the Book Thief, fear causes the Hubermanns to become closer to Liesel. When Liesel first moved in with the Hubermanns, she was scared and shy. Over time she felt closer and closer to the Hubermanns, as any child would. However she took a liking to Hans Hubermann, as he acted as a father figure for her. It was common that Liesel had nightmares, and at odd hours of the night Hans would catch her crying, and eventually read to her. Liesel had nightmares of many things, however a conversation at 2 A.M reveals her trust in Hans, “A 2 A.M. CONVERSATION “Is this yours?” “Yes, Papa.” “Do you want to read it?” Again, “Yes, Papa.” A tired smile. Metallic eyes, melting. “Well, we’d better read it, then.” “(Zusak, 64). As a result Liesel's fears brought her and Hans closer together, as their bond is solely based on Liesel's fears (and Liesel opening up to Hans, of course). Similarly in Lord of the Flies, Fear is what causes the characters to group together in times of need, just as the book thief. In the beginning, when the characters came to the island the first priority was bootstrapping their environment so that they could sustain themselves. In order to bootstrap their environment, they had to employ teamwork which brought them together. Ralph says to Piggy that“ They’re hopeless.” but continues to say that ”The older ones aren’t much better.” implying the older hunters have not been helping ” All day I’ve been working with Simon. No one else. They’re off bathing, or eating, or playing.”(Golding, 50) This is significant because Ralph realises that they need to implement teamwork and more effective project management tactics or else everybody would just play and act useless. Beforehand when they first got to the island everybody was willing to help in times of need, however in the end more and more people got sidetracked. Both Lord of the flies and The book thief exert the characteristics of a positive outcome created by fear, both instances cause characters to become pulled together. Finally, fear is portrayed as a powerful force in both novels.
Fear is a powerful force that controls the characters, it does not only act as a light and dark force but it can act as a general force that causes immense change. In the Book Thief, an immense change caused by fear is the holocaust. Max Vandenberg lived a fairly normal life as a Jew, however it is the holocaust that separated him from his mother. As Max left his mother, Max felt that he should have “...turned for one last look at his family as he left the apartment” he would have felt that “the guilt would not have been so heavy.” as the guilt of leaving his Mother due to fearing for his life caused an immense change for Max and his family. Both the Book Thief and Lord of The Flies share this immense change caused by fear. A rumored beast on the island caused an immense amount of fear for all. The tension caused by the fear caused changes to their actions. Fear of the beast is what killed Simon, on a night when they were eating pig around a fire they began a chant, saying that “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” and as the chant progresses “The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse.”(Golding, 152,eventually this lead to everybody being seduced by this savage chant. In the meantime, Simon had just returned to tell them that there is no beast as he found the dead parachutist. As a result Simon was killed, and the death of
Simon emphasizes the fear of the beast and how it created an immense change. In conclusion, the false reality created by fear is exhibited in the Lord of the Flies and the Book Thief by a strong and powerful change, such as Max Vandenburg leaving his mother for safety, and the death of Simon due to fear and innate savagery. There is also a negative change that rips characters apart and destroys bonds which involved Max Vandenburg leaving the Hubermanns due to fear of being captured by the Nazis, and also Liesel trying to reach out to her mother in order to test if she's still alive. Finally a strong positive change that can bring characters together is caused by fear, such as fear of natural selection bringing characters together in time of need in Lord of the Flies, and Hans Hubermann reading to Liesel and bonding with her when she had nightmares. Fear is a strong common theme among Lord of the Flies and the Book Thief, both linking them together in a strong way. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear”
In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, and Kendra Cherry’s article, “The Milgram Obedience Experiment”, the comparable fear factor, and naive mindset of individuals put under dire circumstances leads to the corruption of society and rise of evil in humans. Fear factors are an influential resource, and useful tactic leaders use to instil dominant power in their citizens, if this power is abused, evil and chaos occurs. For example, in Lord of the Flies, when Samneric get captured by Jack, Jack terrorizes them, snapping, “What d’you mean coming here with spears? What d’you mean by not joining my tribe?” the twins try to escape but fear takes over their morals and they, “...lay looking up in quiet terror” (Golding 182). As Jack threatens
Fear is a powerful emotion. Wikipedia.com describes fear as “an emotion induced by threat perceived by living entities, which causes a change in brain and organ function and ultimately change behavior, such as running away, hiding or freezing from traumatic events.”Most people tend to avoid fearful situations, not realizing that something positive may come out of the event or experience. Victor Villaseñor focuses on the topic of fear in his novel titled Burro Genius. Villaseñor demonstrates to readers how growing up he was extremely fearful of any situation. Victor also tells his readers how he turned his fear into motivation into motivation to keep going and reach his ultimate goal of becoming a published author.
The context behind the author of Lord of the Flies is significant to the meaning of the novel, it shapes the decisions behind what occurs in the text, Willian Goudlings’s participation in World War One, conflicted his feelings towards human kind and their destructive and evil notions.
In the Lord of the Flies fear takes over the boys and cause things to go downfall. The boys in Lord of the Flies might be afraid of the beast, but that fear turns out to be more dangerous than any beast could possibly be. The Lord of the Flies even says to Simon that “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?
The most destructive force on the island is not a physical being, but rather a fear that lives within the boys. The three fears that were stated above, Jack’s fear of not being chief, Ralph’s fear of not surviving and the boys’ fear of the beast, has made the most impact in the book Lord of the Flies. Throughout the book, the boys have the power and the strength to overcome their fears and work together as a group but in the end, they choose not to by letting themselves accept their inner savageness. Fear is a very strong motivator, but it is up to the humans to use that for the benefit of others and themselves. Conclusively, it is either the fear controls the person or the person controls the fear.
This quote illustrates that they might never be rescued. This foreshadows that, they cannot expect to be rescued and they will start making the island a livable habitat for them. Both books have an ever present idea of fear and in the novels, it affects how they respond to situations and how they interpret and think about their surroundings. When jack uses fear as a tool is is similar to how the Nazis use fear. For these reasons fear is a repercussion of war and exist with both novels as a prominent factor in the lives of the
Throughout the book, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, the feeling of fear is ever present. In the beginning fear is felt by Thomas as he is trapped in the dark, with no memory and unsure of what is awaiting him at the top of the lift. Later, fear is felt by all of the gladers as things start to change and differ from their systematic lifestyle. Not to mention, the constant fear felt daily by the gladers as the try to stay alive while finding a way out of the maze.
A distressing emotion aroused by impending evil and pain, whether the threat is real or imagined is described as fear. Fear is what William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies encompasses. By taking three major examples from the novel, fear will be considered on different levels: Simon’s having no instance of fear, Ralph’s fear of isolation on the island, and Jack’s fear of being powerless. Fear can make people behave in ways that are foreign to them, whether their fear is real or imagined. In response to fear, people may act defensively by attacking, fear can either stop one from doing something, or it can make one behave in an irrational erratic manner.
One of many prominent themes in William Golding's novel, the Lord of the Flies, is Fear. From the very first chapter, until the last, fear plays an important role in this text. It is the only thing, which stops the boys from acting rationally at times, from questioning curious circumstances and it physically hindered so many of the boys, so many times. The active role of fear in Lord of the Flies, was intentionally used by Golding, because he knew what images it would create. Fear is described by Mirriam- Webster's English dictionary, as To be uneasy or apprehensive'. This feeling is mutually experienced by all of the boys on the island in many different ways. Initially the boys have an obvious fear of being alone, which then brings upon the fear of what we know as the beast, or as the littluns refer to is, as the beastie'. While this fear continues for the whole of the novel, we are also exposed to three other incidents of fear. The first of these is the civilised fear of consequences, displayed only when the children are seen as young civilised boys, in the earliest chapters. The final two are of a different nature, with those fears being the loss of power, the fear of rejection and the fear of being in the minority. All of these different fears, then relate back to the character, and as was expertly planned out by William Golding, influences the characters attitudes and behaviours.
Picture being in a group of young children stranded on an island with an some unknown monstrosity that may or may not even exist. Well, In the novel titled “The Lord of the Flies”, William Golding displays an unyielding allegorical warning about the idea of a dictator taking over, democracy being destroyed, and the breaking down of civilization in society which is gripped by fear and uncertainty. This sort of fear of uncertainty comes into play when the certain symbolic concepts are first introduced into the novel when the island was still pure. Then as time goes on, a democracy is developed in order to take control of all that is going on but their sanity starts to break down as a concept of fear is put upon them. Golding warns his audience
Fear influences people to make irrational decisions and take extreme measures. Often times, these actions are done to protect one’s reputation. Fear causes people to lie and manipulate to those they care about in order to escape what they are scared of most. Fear of failure has caused higher levels of anxiety, and has made society put blame on each other, rather than owning up to their mistakes. Fear can also cause one to forget one’s true identity and lose one’s values. There are two options that one can take when being faced with a fear: run away from the fear, or go through it and learn a valuable lesson in the end that will make you a stronger person. Fear is a harmful emotion that everyone has to go through in order to succeed.
Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion that is caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous. The boys in Lord of the Flies, are thrown on an island with nothing to help them survive. These children run to fear, rather than their peers, to help support each other when dangerous situations arise. Fear is an emotion that humans experience on a daily basis, and it is vital to our survival. It protects people from the danger that confines them, which then leads to how they act or behave in certain situations.
Adolf Hitler was a brilliant leader with horrid morals. Throughout history many leaders have ruled over people using fear and evil to gain more power. Although very wrong, many of these leaders have been successful and gained their people’s trust. According to Rousseau people were all pure at once, but all of the evil and negativity take their toll eventually. Evil corrupts society. It affects even the purist of living beings. This is especially shown in The Lord of the Flies, a book about a group of young boys who crash onto an island and have to fend for themselves, and potentially their group. Throughout William Golding’s novel, The Lord of the Flies, symbols show how evil and fear corrupt society.
American journalist Dorothy Thompson once said, “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.” Unfortunately, for the boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an imaginary beast that the boys introduced themselves denies them the ability to live without fear. A World War Three refugee plane carrying a group of British boys is shot down over the Pacific Ocean and crashes into the jungle of an uninhabited island. Only the boys survive the crash, and they must band together to survive and hope for rescue. Through Lord of the Flies, Golding shows that fear is the downfall of logical society.
Fear releases evil within man’s heart. In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, British schoolboys become castaways on an uninhabited island. As the boys live on the island, rumors of a beast circulate, bringing to light the boys’ inner savagery. The boys' moral degradation becomes even more apparent when they are compared to Simon, a pure soul who, despite suffering from epilepsy, treks up a dangerous mountain to discover the truth about the beast. Religious symbols, such as Simon, the Lord of the Flies, and the setting, show that when good and evil collide, fear and ignorance become dangerous enemies of reason.