Comparing Fear In 'Lord Of The Flies And The Village'

In the Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, fear is one of the thematic topics. The beast, each other, and savagery are three main sections of fear used in the story.

      The boys in the book, The Lord of the Flies, are controlled by their fear of the beast.  This fear is not of the beast itself, but of the unknown. It comes from not knowing whether or not a beast exists.

Fear has a dramatic effect on humanity, distorting the visions of humans, causing mass panic and hysteria throughout history. The novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, uses fear to convey the devastating consequences it has on people. The fear of abandonment is the earliest fear in the novel, which lead to the “creation” of the beast. Similarly, man's fear of the unknown causes the boys to lose their ability of rational thinking and alters their priorities on the island. In addition, the boys' fear of Jack results in a totalitarian rule where the boys are ignoring their morals and following him for their own safety. In Lord of the Flies, fear is a dominant factor that contributed to the destruction of the democratic island society and

Imagine this: You’re a young child, still relying on your parents for many things. One day you involved in a plane crash that leaves you and other young children stranded on an island. There is a considerable amount of fear associated with being placed in this unfortunate situation This is exactly what happened in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The group of young boys are stunned after their plane downs on a deserted island, where there concerns include fear the unknown wilderness and death. This fear creates a need for social order and power, which are main components of this piece of literature’s theme.

The Youngins, are well, young. These boys are all alone, on an island, so if anything they do not understand happens, they have to have an excuse. Thus the Beast comes into play. The boys are scared of the beast at night also, because this is when they cannot see what's going on. Thus blaming the beast for everything. Ralph laughed, and the other boys laughed with him. The small boy twisted further into himself."Tell us about the snake-thing." "Now he says it was a beastie." "Beastie?" "A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it." "Where?' "In the woods.” "He says the beastie came in the dark."(35). The younger boys, are very scared of the so called “Beast” even claiming to see it. But, they are scared just more than just the fact that there is something on the island. It is the fact that they can not explain everything that is happening on the island. So, it is safe to say, that in Lord Of the Flies, the Beast means way more than just a literal monster, and resembles all the problems that are happening, to the

Fear is defined as an “unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat”. The effects of fear can cause us to become a totally different person. In the book, The Lord of the Flies, many of the characters went from innocent young child to a brutal savage. “This was a savage whose image refused to blend with the innocent pictures of a boy in shorts and shirt” (Golding 183). The boys arrived on the island looking like proper British boys from a civilized place, and left the island

“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well. We were happy.” (Golding 87). In this statement, Ralph realizes that his life, and those of the others’ on the island, is going to hit rock-bottom. All goes terribly wrong when the beast is introduced by the littlun with the mulberry patch on his face in Chapter 2. The beast is the reason for all the chaos in Lord of the Flies. The beast is an imaginary creature that frightens all the boys, and yet, it stands symbolically for the savagery that exists within all human beings. As the boys develop their fear and grow more and more certain of the presence of a beast, they also become more and more savage. William Golding uses the beast as a way to show the demise of the boys while they are on the island. The beast represents the irrational fear that exists within man, the savage monster within us all, and the ability for man to use intimidation to gain ultimate power.

There are many emotions that do many different things but one of the most destructive of them all is fear. fear is everywhere is the world around us it is a part of everyday lives and it is around every corner waiting. There's only one thing worse than fear itself and that's fear of the unknown. In the novel The Lord Of The Flies fear is brought to a new level of destructiveness when it comes to people's emotions. In the novel fear is a destructive emotion is many ways.

It’s the years following World War II, and tension is high. A group a British school boys needed to crash their plane in the ocean and swim to the shore of an uninhabited island. The island have pigs, water, and other valuable resources they need in order to survive. Once they appear on the island, they decided to set up rules and laws to govern their miniature society. A twelve year old boy disagrees with the laws they had originally set up and a rebellion starts to brew within the group. Now the trouble begins. This is the plot line of the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Golding claims that fear brings out the worst in people. These rules, originally made for their own comfort, can be compromised by fear. In the case of the The Lord of the Flies, the children fear a creature called beastie. Fear can cause chaos and make people doing things they don’t normally do. The fear brings out the worst in people and it starts with beastie and leads to a the rebellion of Jack, and the demise of Simon and Piggy.

Fear impacts everyone. For some individuals, fear comes in a good form; it pushes one to achieve success. But for others, it can be dangerous and a continuous burden. In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, the boys’ suspicion of the island and those that roam it, is the downfall in to savagery. The boys first decide to paint their faces, followed by trying to show their aggression to the beast, breaking rules, openly admitting to carelessness, metaphorically raping a mother pig, and remaining naked although they had clothes. Over the course of a few weeks, the boys slowly demonstrated fear and evolved in to uncultured beasts.

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses the appearance of the beast to represent the boy's inner savagery that is being battled and embraced by the characters of Ralph and Jack. Through the beast, Golding suggests that fear is a powerful tool that can be used as a weapon to control others and can even eventually consume the minds of sane individuals.

Each of the children in “Lord of the Flies” had a dominant trait that could be easily identified. For example: the lil uns were fearful and immature, Piggy was passive and vulnerable, Ralph was conscientious and mindful of the future, and Jack was violent and controlling. When the children joined forces, they created a complex society that could be compared to a human’s state of mind. I myself, could relate to many of the children’s feelings and reactions.

At the beginning of the story, everybody feels something that perhaps they have not felt before, what they all felt is called fear. Everytime someone screamed, saying horrible things to each other, fear was expressed. Fear is something that affects human beings every day by saying and doing actions that we aren't supposed to say or do. Even Though fear is not always affecting us, we still do things wrong. All the things we do, say, and think incorrectly, we do it because we are human beings and we are meant to make mistakes in order to learn from them. The humanity and the fear can affect us as much as affected the boys, we don’t realize the power of them until we actually mix them (like the boys did) and then they produced chaos, even deaths.

What affects can the damaging potencies of fear have on the instability of civilization? Conceivably it can weaken and potentially break down civilization. Anxious of their own security, people may be affected by fear so harshly that civilization to them would be as if it never existed. It may lead to them making irrational decisions that can affect their lives greatly. When fear is present, human instinct would be to certify safety for the thing feared, but in the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, where fear is a protruding theme, it is clearly evident that this is not the case. Instead, fear was used against civilization, causing disorder, destruction, as well as vulgar and savage acts. Fear is commonly viewed as a limitation of

In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys are scared of the beast. One character in particular, Ralph, who is not afraid of the beast, explains to the boys that “fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream” (82). This quote foreshadows Ralph’s personality because his true identity is a scared little boy who does not know what he is doing. If Ralph shows fear, then his group will know that he is not as fearless as he seems to be. Ralph’s weakness is losing because he compared fear to a dream which tells the reader that he wants to convince his group that he is the best person they have right now. His weakness is always jeopardizing him of his dominance and power over the group. For example, when Jack tells the group lies about Ralph,