Lord of the Flies

Fear is something we have to think about almost a daily basis, some things that have risks people can push the fear aside but the fear will always be there. Fear can be very powerful and can lead societies to chaos. The biggest fears in the book were fears of dying and the fear of the unknown. Every body in the book had their own way of expressing their fear and what they had a fear of, but it was in everyone. In William Golding’s book The Lord of the Flies, fear is what eventually causes them to turn against each other until they are so paranoid about the beast that they kill one of the boys on the island thinking it is the beast.

The first boy Jack feared the beast and thought that it actually existed he dealt with his fear in a way that was very aggressive. In the beginning of the book he wanted to kill pigs for meat, everyone agreed with him as they wanted meat. Soon he started getting obsessed with the violence and he would do nothing but hunt pigs. When the news of the “Beast” came around he dealt with his fear of it by wanting to hunt down the beast and attack it. So when he felt fear he turned to anger and violence he started making dances and chants where they would say, “Kill the Beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” Other things that Jack feared were Ralph’s control over the group and Piggy’s intellectual thinking. He feared these things because both challenged his want of absolute power to lead all of the boys. He treats these fears the same way he did to the fear of the beast. He abused piggy both verbally and physically. Jack also challenged Ralph’s leadership and authority to the point where he decided to leave their group and start his own tribe.

Simon was one of the most rational boys and represented good in the book. He got to be so afraid of the beast that he would start to have dreams and visions about it. So when Jack and Ralph came back from the mountain and said they saw the beast Simon was so curious