Fear In Lord Of The Flies Dbq Essay

In lord of the flies, I think the "beast" is just the children's self conscious and that they are scared and confused of the truth that they are lost and alone during a war. And that their plane may have been shot down and they may be being hunted by a military force. It is them finding a way to get control of their situation and still have someone superior to them and be able to give them rules and be able to give them rules and supervision and enforce the rules.

Fear is a huge reason that they are making up the beast with because they are scared that they will not have anyone to control one of them if they go off on a rampage. The first ones to start to believe in the "beast" are the little ones because they still have the most imagination and are still scared of things like monsters and demons. Then the older ones gradually start believe in them because they realize that they are scared and also lost. They start to see people in the forest at night and are scared but they all refuse to show it. …show more content…
Again as I said it was very scary and it took place during WWII and their plane was shot down. In document C it says that it took place during a world war and that the British forces were a big part of the war. In document D it states that they seen a few lights in the sky at night that moved fast or winked and that a sign came from grown ups but no body was awake to see it. That means that they missed their only shot at rescue. They also saw the fighter pilot go down in his parachute and thought that he was the beast and that scared them even more. They also heard faint popping noises from the fight ten miles above. And Sam and Eric saw the parachute dragging behind the person and got Ralph because they were scared and said they saw the beast. And Ralph got more worried because they were more or less some of the older