Number of the Beast

The beginning scene opens as Ralph and Piggy meeting for the first time. As they find other stranded boys they find themselves in need of leadership. They elect Ralph, but as the story continues the boys find an inner fear, the beast. Even though it is all a figment of their imaginations. They turn gradually more savage as the story progresses. Leading to deaths such as Simon and Piggy. The boys formed a civil leadership at the beginning the fear inside them creates an inner fear that gradually…

deal with the Beast, their worst nightmare. At first, most of the children cry and whimper about a monster in the forest, but eventually, they respond to their outrageous situation with a tremendous amount of energy, excitement, and cruelty towards other life forms: “He [Jack] stood up, holding the dripping sow’s head in his hands … and jammed the soft throat down the pointed end of the stick … The head hung there, a little blood dripping down the stick … ‘This head is for the beast. It’s a…

Human beings are naturally born with a wide range of emotions, which they access in response to different situations. The loss of a favorite toy could trigger sadness, which is communicated via crying. The emotion that William Golding focuses on in his novel Lord of the Flies is fear. A group of boys is left on a deserted island after their plane has crashed due to the war. Although everything is fine at first, everything slowly goes downhill as they stop working together and start acting more…

In William Golding’s novel Lord of The Flies, Golding highlights the idea that Man’s natural drive is to fulfill an evil desire. Boys from England end up stranded on an island in the middle of a world war. They face unknown dangers that bring out the worst in them. The nightmares come alive when others start to challenge the order and authority that has been set. Overall, the boys turn into savages, at least most of them do. Jack begins to kill for fun and sport and tries to twist the truth to…

some were different. The death of Simon was abrupt but, the death of Piggy was always on Rogers mind. The reason for Simon's death was that when he came out of the forest the Littluns thought he was “The Beast”. Simon had stumbled out of the forest into a horseshoe made by the boys. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill the blood!”(Golding 153). He was on his knees screaming as the Littluns clawed and tore at his skin. The Littluns didn’t even realize…

woodsman that continuously warns them of an evil beast that lurks the woods and tells Wirt, since he’s the older of the two, how he should take care of his brother. Eventually, they meet a talking bluebird named Beatrice who claims to need to help them find their way back home since Greg helped untangle her from a bush. The rest of the show is about the trio dealing with and meeting multiple different people to solve the puzzle of what the beast is and how to return home. The roles…

eventually the devil controls the boys so much that they are unable to foresee a hope for rescue or redemption. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding describes the fall of civilization and the division of power through the explicit symbols of the Beast and the sea. Throughout the plot, two groups are formed. One group consists of the civilized and rational boys, while the other houses the tribal and barbaric boys (Hollahan 67). The rational group is led by the main character Ralph,…

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…

Lord of The Flies, The Symbolization of The Beast How far can the mental figure of a beast go before it’s too much? Lord of The Flies takes place on a island in the Pacific Ocean during the second World War. After a British aircraft transporting school boys crashes on an island they’re faced with the task of surviving with the help of adults. They develop the figure of a beast that is used to represent fear, war, and the savagery of human nature throughout the book. Initially, the younger…

Ralph uses the conch to call all the boys for a meeting to inform them that there are no adults on the island and they must look after themselves. Jack immediately exclaims, “We’ll have rules!” and it is decided that the boys must raise their hand to speak and unless they have the conch, they cannot speak. Piggy receives the conch and brings up the fact that they may never get rescued because no one knows where they are. Ralph agrees with his point but states, “this is a good island”. Then a…