Lord of The Flies, The Symbolization of The Beast How far can the mental figure of a beast go before it’s too much? Lord of The Flies takes place on a island in the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. After a British aircraft transporting school boys crashes on an island they’re faced with the task of surviving with the help of adults.
They develop the figure of a beast that is used to represent fear, war, and the savagery of human nature throughout the book. Initially, the younger kids were terrified, and because of this they “externalize these fears into the figure of a beast” (Doc A). One of the younger kids insisted that he saw a snake and with the help of Piggy, it was understood that “in the morning it turned into them things …show more content…
The kids chose a leader in an attempt to have order and a better shot at surviving, but even with their efforts, the fear and delusions pulled them to kill one of their own. Simon was an epileptic lonely kid who sought to find out what the beast really is. Simon went to dead parachutist, and after his discovery he ran “to tell the other boys that the beast in human…” (Doc E) Thought Simons realization was too late, for the boys had started on a path led by a urge to survive and remove the issue of the “beast”. Simon never could’ve prepared for what happened, for the other boys were under the leadership of Jack and was taking part in a ritual attacked Simon. They were out to kill the beast and in a most savagely gruesome way they lunged with “the tearing of teeth and claw” at Simon as to dispel this “beast”. It’s truly up to interpretation on what the beast is to the reader. It could’ve been intended as fear, war, maybe even human nature's savagery but whatever it actually represent it’s always there. Weather it be formed of a person's fears of actions there’s always a beast. Golding wrote to show what the beast can be, and over the course of the novel it changes to show just what the beast can turn
They develop the figure of a beast that is used to represent fear, war, and the savagery of human nature throughout the book. Initially, the younger kids were terrified, and because of this they “externalize these fears into the figure of a beast” (Doc A). One of the younger kids insisted that he saw a snake and with the help of Piggy, it was understood that “in the morning it turned into them things …show more content…
The kids chose a leader in an attempt to have order and a better shot at surviving, but even with their efforts, the fear and delusions pulled them to kill one of their own. Simon was an epileptic lonely kid who sought to find out what the beast really is. Simon went to dead parachutist, and after his discovery he ran “to tell the other boys that the beast in human…” (Doc E) Thought Simons realization was too late, for the boys had started on a path led by a urge to survive and remove the issue of the “beast”. Simon never could’ve prepared for what happened, for the other boys were under the leadership of Jack and was taking part in a ritual attacked Simon. They were out to kill the beast and in a most savagely gruesome way they lunged with “the tearing of teeth and claw” at Simon as to dispel this “beast”. It’s truly up to interpretation on what the beast is to the reader. It could’ve been intended as fear, war, maybe even human nature's savagery but whatever it actually represent it’s always there. Weather it be formed of a person's fears of actions there’s always a beast. Golding wrote to show what the beast can be, and over the course of the novel it changes to show just what the beast can turn