Outline For Lord Of The Flies Dbq Research Paper

Beast? “Kill it! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” WIlliam Golding’s Lord of the FLies is one ofthe most powerful and popular novels of the 20th century, but no one truly knows what the “beast” is, except for Golding himself. The novel begins just after a plane evacuating a group of English schoolboys has been shot down over an unnamed deserted island in the Pacific Ocean.When the boys first land, there is an air of adventure and even celebration at their newfound freedom from grownups, but what the children don’t know is that there is something there with them. As the book goes on, there are many different thought of what this thing is, or some would say what the “beast” is.

In Lord of the flies two characters were killed by the names of simon and piggy. In Lost, Edward Mars mars is killed. In both of these stories there was a plane crash on an uncharted island where these characters survived, but were later on killed. In LOTF, Simon and Piggy were killed later on. In lost marshall Edward was killed early on. According to document A the definition of murder is “ the killing of another human being under conditions specifically covered in law.”

Although The Lord of the Flies and LOST are many years apart, they both ask the same questions… Are people civilized?

“ He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches. He says will it come back tonight?” In the Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on an isolated, unnamed island. These boys are being pursued by an unidentifiable “beast”. However, what does this “beast” symbolize or represent? Over time the understanding of the “beast” materializes in various forms.

Sometimes fear can be shown through external things, or sometimes, fear can lie internally. The Lord of the Flies was a twisted situation that shows what can happen to a group of unattended boys that are left to fend for themselves on a stranded island. They begin to develop a fear of the “beast”, which is what they think is the monster of the island. From an outsiders perspective, “the beast” could be perceived as the fear of an actual “monster-like” beast, the hypocrisy of war, or the evil that lies within us.

In Lord of the Flies the beast represents fear in the beginning, then the evil inside of people, and by the end, savagery. The beast shows how fear can push man over the edge and take them back to their roots of evil. At first the beast is only the product of the boys imagination and of what they can't see, and that puts a lot more fear into something that you can see ,because you can't defeat

One of the major themes of Lord of the Flies, deals with the struggle between right and wrong and the moral integrity of a society. As soon as the boys realize that they are alone on the island, the battle between right and wrong begins. Ralph emerges as the chief and plans to begin a civilized society. When the boys are left to their own devices, chaos ensues. Some of the boys would rather hunt and kill than build shelter, so Jack’s tribe becomes increasingly popular. Without the existence of rules and refinement, there is little hope for the future of the boys. The beast plays a big role in this theme because it lurks inside everyone. The evils lie within and choices have to be made to survive, whether through smart thinking or

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

Throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies, the boys on the island are continuously faced with numerous fears. Subsequently there is nothing on the island which they fear more than the beast. The beast is not a tangible object that can be killed or destroyed by conventional means, but an idea symbolizing the primal savage instincts within all people. Its Golding’s intention to illustrate the innate evil inside man through his view of human nature, the actions of the Jack and his tribe, and the relationship between the beast and the school boys.

All throughout this novel the boys are called to meetings to discuss the rules, the fire, and many other assorted things. One of these things is a beast that comes in the night but does not leave foot prints or any trail at any time. All the boys are very afraid of this beast and what it may do to them if it gets hold of them. As it turns out the beast is in the boys: "'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?'"(172). This is the "lord of the flies," also known as the beast, talking to Simon the first boy murdered. The beast is their unwillingness to maintain a civilization; it is their transformation into savages. All the time at all these meetings the boys respect the conch and whoever held the conch was respected, even if he was not liked. Once this symbol of

“Maybe ... maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us”(William Golding). In the novel Lord of The Flies, William Golding exhibits the symbolism and representation of the beast. The beast represents the norm of society and how most citizens are conceived to evil. As the novel progresses, the reader's perspective of the beast transforms from a possibly harmful animal into to a representation of human civilization and how humans are ignorant and oblivious when it becomes survival of the fittest. The concept of the beast changes significantly during the novel from first the beast on land, then to the beast in the air and finally to the beast within the kids themselves.

In English we read the book, “Lord of the Flies.” It was a book who’s author, William Golding, had written to show his view on man’s inherent true self. After going through WWII and seeing horrors that man would do to other man he became convinced man is inherently evil. The beast, a symbolic figure in the book, is the manifestation of the evil in every mans heart. This nonexistent beast tormented and manipulated the boys that were stranded on the island, eventually ruining the fragile civil society they built. William’s main point to bring across was even small boy, who’s ages range from five to twelve, can fall victim to the evil in

When people think of a beast, a few ideas may come to mind. The monster that lives under your bed, a creature with fangs, or abomination waiting in the dark. But how often does one consider that the scariest beast may be humans themselves? In Sir WIlliam Golding’s novel “The Lord of the Flies,” boys stranded on a remote island are terrorized by a beast, similarly to some children and even adults in the real world. However, the events and actions of Jack and Ralph in Golding’s novel illustrate that the beast is really humans themselves, and their unending selfishness throughout 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.

The fear begins internally with a few younger boys who are simply scared of the unknown and dark throughout the novel, and this simple childish fear was like a seed planted within them that slowly grew. The fear first grew into a beast that scared them at night. Golding first introduces the fear through the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark who asks Piggy “What you’re going to do about the snake-thing”(35). All the boys soon become fearful of this unknown and unseen beast. This fear starts to take control of the boys, from this Jack arises and claims he would kill the beast if it was real. The fear in the children transforms into a new protected trust in Jack.