The Beast In Lord Of The Flies

In lord of the flies the survivors of a plane crash are convinced that there is a “beast” among them, as their trying to survive for their lives… first they think that it is a pig head and then they think that is a dead piolet… and eventually they kill their own kind because of it. I believe that the beast is them themselves because they have been on the island so long that they have become savages and lost their minds! Here’s some things to back my evidence.
First we are going to talk about their fear and how scared they were of the beast. In the beginning when the hunters went hunting they saw something in the woods and as that happened the story spread around. “The younger children first, then gradually the older ones…” (DOC A). So at first the younger kids thought that it was real and eventually so did the older kids. Since they kept believing they eventually claimed to see the beast in their dreams. Then in DOC B it says that the beast only comes out at night. But if you think about it the survivors are normal during the day but at night they turn into savages and they thought crazy things. Which made them believe even …show more content…
“War is not the mere occasion of the novel, but rather the off-stage protagonist in this drama of evil, determining the behavior of the boys on the marooned island” (DOC C). It also states “I began to see what people were capable of doing”. So it shows that the boys were capable of turning against each other. That made them even worse because the people who believed that there was no beast created more anger and more frustration which made them turn against them even more. In DOC D it tells about the time that the boys saw the dead piolet get stranded on top of the mountain but they claimed it was the “beast”. The twins eventually went to go find it and even though they saw it was a stranded piolet they still believed that it was the scary