In the Lord of The Flies, a group of kids are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean, and are scared of the unknown. The term beast is defined throughout the story as several different things. The following writing will show what the kids really feared. The beast is first thought of as fear itself. Document A shows that, “They externalize these fears in the form of a beast.” Document B also supports this statement when saying, “He must have had a nightmare. He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches.” To clarify the nightmare were in his mind and coming alive which is showing his fears in a materialized form. After fear the beast is defined as war. The boys saw what they thought