How Does Golding Present Fear In Lord Of The Flies

Throughout William Golding's, Lord of the Flies, fear and agonizes and controls the boys. The beast, representing fear, terrorizes the boys into savagery. When the boys land on the island, the idea of no adults and freedom overcome them. They start to explore and wander through the island. It’s not until the first assembly, that the boys are “woken up” from their fantasy land of no adults. A little boy, hesitant, asks about a snake-thing, and what Ralph plans to do about it: “He says he saw a beastie, the snake thing, and it will come back tonight…More grave nodding;they knew about the nightmares”(36). Jack and Ralph, do not have an explanation for this, except that the keep reiterating the fact that there isn't a beast. It doesn’t convince

Fear made Jack indignant. When Jack didn’t get leader, he wanted to prove himself in another way; he wanted to prove himself by hunting. The beast gave him motivation to kill. Jack took his fear, and turned into hunger for blood. Eventually fear, and the surfeit of pleasure Jack got from killing, lead him into power. Jack hated the idea of rescue, not because he did not want to be rescued, but because if he promoted it, it would make Jack look he was giving into fear. Instead, he condoned rescue, and put the idea of killing the beast into people’s heads. The fear of the beast got him into power, and made not only leader, but savage. The more and more he kept hunting, the more and more his savage side came out. Until, he finally killed the “beast.” Ralph and Piggy are trying to bring the boys back to their tribe. They showed how Jack isn’t thinking about the future or rescue. It made the boys uneasy and frightened that their leader was not great and special as they thought. Jack shut all this talk out, by making them do their dance and getting them rallied up. They were in a trance. Mesmerized and scared at the same time: “The best