Who Is The Beast In Lord Of The Flies

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Beast Essay In The Lord of The Flies by William Golding the beast is a figure that represents internal fear and darkness. The beast is nothing but a figment of their imagination that they have created in order to cope with the fact that they are stuck on an island. By creating the beast within their minds they have given fear a name. Both Simon and Piggy believe that the beast is just within them. The littluns think they see a beast in the woods, the water, the sky, and the mountain. Simon says “Maybe there is a beast….Maybe it's only us” (80). Piggy also says something about the beast "I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either” (84). Piggy continues to say unless people frighten us. Darkness, hunger, sexaul urges, and the desire to kill has filled …show more content…

The only one to come to the realization is simon. He understands that the beast is only within them and with the desire to hunt and kill, all of the boys will stop a nothing to get the beast. When Simo comes down from the mountain during the storm all the boys are dancing and celebrating from the hunt. Simon who is tired goes in the middle and all of the boys dancing around of so overwhelmed by their sexaul disires and urges to kill that they all attack simon killing him. Simon has just realized that the beast is only a dead pilot and before he can tell them, they stick him with their spears and beat him until he dies. Both Simon and the dead pilot are taken by the storm and the boys believe that the beast is gone. The boys suffer psychosis which forces them to believe the beast is real. Freudian terms show that the boys aren't the same but that they are experiencing and demonstrating normal tendances. When they stick the pig in butt they're demostrating their sexaul urges. Freud really makes his point by how the littluns and bigguns act in this novel. They all relate to his terms and are definitions of

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