In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy lose their identities on the stranded island causing destruction and disaster. While discussing about the beast, Simon describes a loss of identity through the beast when he says, “what I mean is… Maybe it’s only us” (Golding 89). This shows that Simon was no longer identifying the other boys the same as he was when they first arrived on the island. This idea is important because it proves that characters were noticing the changes happening through savagery of the other boys’ actions. On Ralph’s first hunt, Ralph changes his identity when “[he] too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering” (Golding
