Ralph is the leader of a group of boys in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Fear causes the the boys to neglect eachother’s advice The group of stranded boys are startled by the fact that there may be a beast lingering on the island among them. Ralph struggles to defend his statement that there “isn’t a beast” and is “defeated” by the uproar of the boys as they fail to listen (Golding 37). As a result of their fear, they end up killing Simon, a close friend, mistaking him as the beast. In neutral circumstances, they would have been more careful about their actions and not become bloodthirsty savages in for the kill whenever they had just the slightest glimpse of hope of killing the unknown beast. This is identical to how voters, nowadays,
