The year is 1954 and you and many other boys get shot out of the sky in an atomic war and end up on an island with no grown-ups. I’m sure many are excited to finally be away from adults and free from all worries however, trouble arises. You start to face problems you’ve never faced before such as where your next meal will come from and will you ever be saved from this wretched place. You soon become annoyed by these problems and you start to imagine things. You now blame these problems on something bigger than any of you could ever imagine, you blame it on “the beast”. This in fact is the exact storyline for a very famous novel that won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, this novel is called The Lord of the Flies.
The first thing I believe the beast represents is the fear inside every boy and having to blame that fear on something. According to Document A “the young and old boys now begin to fear the darkness and terrors of the night that which had only previously appeared in their dreams or fairy …show more content…
According to Document E “The meaning of the book depends on the meaning of the beast, and it is that meaning that Simon sets out to determine. His first step is to a place of contemplation, a sunlit space in the midst of the forest. It is to the same place that Jack and his hunters bring the pig’s head”. This pigs head represents the savages that all these boys have turned into. They now like to kill for no reason. When they first landed on the island they were mere boys, but now they’re all beasts”. Simon then has a chat with the lord of the flies he tells him that the beast is human and it’s not worth trying to kill. This then convinces Simon that the beast is human and he must tell the boys. According to Document F “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” This just shows how savage these boys have become, they want to kill a beast that they are not even sure
The first thing I believe the beast represents is the fear inside every boy and having to blame that fear on something. According to Document A “the young and old boys now begin to fear the darkness and terrors of the night that which had only previously appeared in their dreams or fairy …show more content…
According to Document E “The meaning of the book depends on the meaning of the beast, and it is that meaning that Simon sets out to determine. His first step is to a place of contemplation, a sunlit space in the midst of the forest. It is to the same place that Jack and his hunters bring the pig’s head”. This pigs head represents the savages that all these boys have turned into. They now like to kill for no reason. When they first landed on the island they were mere boys, but now they’re all beasts”. Simon then has a chat with the lord of the flies he tells him that the beast is human and it’s not worth trying to kill. This then convinces Simon that the beast is human and he must tell the boys. According to Document F “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” This just shows how savage these boys have become, they want to kill a beast that they are not even sure