Fear In Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis
Fear is an emotion in response to a perceived or believed threat. There are many things, to different extremes, to fear. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the readers are shown what fear can do to people.
The Lord of the Flies shows a consistent theme of fear throughout the story. Fear is known to hold people back and to think irrationally at times. One of the quotes earlier in the story shows fear when one of the main characters expresses, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.”(Golding 157) In this passage, Ralph shows that he is becoming scared of their situation and the people they have become. This is one of the only times a character verbally expresses their fear of themselves and their predicament. …show more content…
This is when Ralph was trying to escape from the savages to safety. He is thinking to himself what he should do and how he should execute it, ‘“Think” What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.’(Golding 196) He had relied on his friend to calm him down and think rationally in tough and scary times. Now that his friend is gone, he has to do his best and think of what to do in this fearful situation. In the beginning of the section, he is scared and not thinking straight. He starts to calm down and pushes away the fear to formulate a plan and go through with it.
In the story Lord of the Flies, children are put to the test in a horrendous situation to see if they can handle fear. Fear can do any number of things to a person and everyone reacts differently to fear. In this story, fear is used to block out the children’s sense of clarity and influences their behavior for survival. Fear causes the group of children to break up which leads them to be afraid of each other until the final fear was realized when they killed one of their own. The individual's outcomes and perceptions depending on a person’s view on fear represent a type of person in today’s typical
The Lord of the Flies shows a consistent theme of fear throughout the story. Fear is known to hold people back and to think irrationally at times. One of the quotes earlier in the story shows fear when one of the main characters expresses, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.”(Golding 157) In this passage, Ralph shows that he is becoming scared of their situation and the people they have become. This is one of the only times a character verbally expresses their fear of themselves and their predicament. …show more content…
This is when Ralph was trying to escape from the savages to safety. He is thinking to himself what he should do and how he should execute it, ‘“Think” What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.’(Golding 196) He had relied on his friend to calm him down and think rationally in tough and scary times. Now that his friend is gone, he has to do his best and think of what to do in this fearful situation. In the beginning of the section, he is scared and not thinking straight. He starts to calm down and pushes away the fear to formulate a plan and go through with it.
In the story Lord of the Flies, children are put to the test in a horrendous situation to see if they can handle fear. Fear can do any number of things to a person and everyone reacts differently to fear. In this story, fear is used to block out the children’s sense of clarity and influences their behavior for survival. Fear causes the group of children to break up which leads them to be afraid of each other until the final fear was realized when they killed one of their own. The individual's outcomes and perceptions depending on a person’s view on fear represent a type of person in today’s typical