Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies tells the story of a group of British boys whose plane crashes on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. (It appears that the world is at war. With no adults, the boys are left to fend for and govern themselves. The boys decide that only who holds the conch shell has public speaking privileges. It helps to establish order.Troubles begin to arise as boys are starting to becomesavages. The main theme is the conflicting impulses towards civilization, (this means to live by rules, peacefully and in harmony) and towards the will to power. Other themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality.

At the beginning of the story, the beast appears to be a hallucination initiated bythe “littluns,” the youngest boys who live in their own fears. Yet the fear of the Beast is infectious.
As time passes by, this imaginary beast becomes more real for them, this represents the boys fear and horror. But it also represents the more primal, beastial feelings within us all, symbolizing that chaos, that animalistic part of you that can take you over so easily.
It is important tomention that Simon recognizes that there is no real beast; this means that there is only the power of the boys’ fear. Jack makes use of this fear to gain more and more supporters. In truth he is the one being a beast by building up a reign of terror. His behaviour has to be regarded as the evil in every mankind, the “beasty side”.
The beast doesn't actually exist in a true physical form, it is withinthem and Simon notices this and gets killed because of it. William Golding, the author, he had a strong belief that every person had evil within in them.

“He says he saw the beastie, the snake thing, and will it come back tonight...he says in the morning it turned them into things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches” (36).
There are many references to beasts in the novel. Theconcept is introduced in chapter 2 by a littlun. No matter how much Ralph attempts to lessen their fears about the Beastie, the group of boys still fear it. The littleuns see 'snakes' which are just the vines and creepers hanging from the trees.

“What I mean is . . . maybe it’s only us”
Simon speaks these words in Chapter 5, during the meeting in which the boys consider the question of thebeast. One littlun has proposed the terrifying idea that the beast may hide in the ocean during the day and emerge only at night, and the boys argue about whether the beast might actually exist. Simon, meanwhile, proposes that perhaps the beast is only the boys themselves. Although the other boys laugh off Simon’s suggestion, Simon’s words are central to Golding’s point that innate human evil exists.Simon is the first character in the novel to see the beast not as an external force but as a component of human nature. Simon does not yet fully understand his own idea, but it becomes clearer to him in Chapter 8, when he has a vision in the glade and confronts the Lord of the Flies.
“It was furry. There was something moving behind its head –wings. The beast moved too –”

“That was awful. Itkind of sat up –” 
The parachutist is only seen as the beast because the boys expect there to be a physical form of the beast and really don't stick around to investigate what it really is.
The twins physically manifest their fear in the dead parachuting man. Because they are so fearful, they see things like “teeth” and “claws” and “wings.”

The head is for the beast. It's a gift (137).Analysis: The boys are sacrificing pig heads to a beast. In reality, they are sacrificing pigs to satisfy their own lust for blood.
"What would a beast eat?" / "Pig." / "We eat pig." / "Piggy!" (83).
The boys are still fearful of a beastie roaming the island. The fact that the beast eats pig is significant and symbolic. The beast of whom they speak is the boys or the evil within the boys. It is the...