Beast Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Have you ever been terrified by a beast that might be yourself? In the book Lord of the Flies there are a group of boys that are on an island and they had to evacuate from their school because there was a war going on. Their plane ended up crashing at this island and now they are stuck there. The boys started to hear things at night and see things at night and they thought that there was a beast around. The boys all thought different things about the beast; they thought there was a snake thing, a sea creature, a human, themselves, or something from the war from the air above. All of them are scared and at this point they are just making up things because they are worried and scared and aren’t being themselves. What actually is the beast? Is it fear, war, or human nature? …show more content…
There was lots of little boys in the group and little kids get scared very easily and so fear would make them scared and think it’s a beast. The little boys also have a lot of nightmares and if they get up out of their nightmares they think that they see something. In (document A) it says that the younger children began to people the darkness and the forest with spirits and demons which appeared in their dreams or fairy tails. It also says how there is no mother to comfort them and tell them that there is no such thing as a beast in the forest. The little boys have no one there to cuddle with and feel safe with; there is only the older kids but they are out to hunt and they won’t comfort the little