Machiavelli Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Niccolo Machiavelli said, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Leaders make people do unthinkable things through using fear, like Hitler having his army kill millions of Jewish people or Isis murdering innocent people. Both of these examples demonstrate the quote by Niccolo Machiavelli because people fear for their lives if they defy their leader. In Lord of the Flies there is a group of boys who are stuck on an island and they must learn to deal with fear otherwise they won’t survive. In his novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding uses Jack beating kids for no reason, Ralph telling the littluns they won’t be rescued without a fire, and Jack saying he could protect his tribe from the beast to represent that

inflicting fear into people is way to accomplish goals.
Hitler was a leader that used fear to accomplish his goal of killing millions of Jewish people.

Hitler had his soldiers do some of the unthinkable things like putting Jews into concentration camps where they would be mistreated and beaten every day. He had his followers put people in gas chambers where they would be poisoned and die horrific deaths. He could accomplish all of this because he inflicted fear into those that followed him by killing anyone that disagreed with him. In the book Lord of the Flies Jack and Ralph both use fear to make the other kids accomplish what their own goals. Everyone has at least at one time in their life used fear to make someone else do what they want, whether it is a mother saying that she will take away her son’s phone if he does not do his homework or a leader saying that his general will go to jail if he does not obey an order either way fear is a bad way to accomplish one’s

goals.

Is it not the fear of failure that pushes people to strive for greatness? No one wants to end up being a failure, which is why students strive to get good grades so that they can go to college. The fear of getting bad grades and ending up poor without any food, house, or a job inflicts enough fear into them to strive to be more successful. William Golding shows that kids, who fear they won’t survive on the island, work towards surviving. In his novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding uses Ralph telling his tribe they won’t be rescued without a fire, Jack hunting Ralph because Ralph threatens Jacks leadership, and the boys fear of death to show that fear is a good motivator.
On July 20, 1969 America landed on the moon; fear motivated them to explore the moon so that they could see what else is out there in our world.

Without the fear of the unknown we would have never known what was out there. Fear pushed Ralph and the littuns to keep the fire going because they would not have been rescued. Fear motivated Jack and his tribe to hunt for food so that they would not starve to death on the island. Simon feared that the beast would come down and kill him but he still went up on top of the mountain to see the beast for himself. Without fear motivating him to venture up to the top of the mountain, Simon and the others would have still been afraid of the beast coming down and killing

them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Sometimes one’s imagination can cause them to think something is there that really isn’t, Sometimes the imagination will make up something to fill the gap of our knowledge. In Lord of the Flies a group of boys are stuck on an island where they must deal with their fear and their imaginations. In his novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding uses the littluns imagining that there is a beast, Sam and Eric spotting the beast, and the little kids believing that the beast killed the kid with the mulberry-colored birthmark to show that fear messes with people’s minds and thoughts.
A person is walking in the dark and they hear a noise behind them, they automatically think it is the worst possible thing, who wouldn’t? They think that it is a thug who is coming to rob and shoot them or that it is a rabid dog that is hunting them down like they are prey. Their imagination gets the best of them and their imagination makes them feel like their fears have come to life and are now coming for them. It is the same as in the novel Lord of the Flies where all the boys are starting to believe that there is a beast out there because their fear of darkness and their imaginations try to make sense of there being a beast. Now everyone has a fear of something and sometimes their imagination just takes off when they start to feel fear from anything.