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- In the book The Lord of the Flies the beast turns out to be the boys worst
- enemy even though it never really existed. The beast turned out to be the
- boys themselves. They were all scared the beast would kill them, but they
- ended up hurting or killing themselves just by defending themselves from the
- so called “beast.”
- The first sign of the beast was when the boys were first scared. When
- the little boy told the rest of the boys about the “snake-thing” he saw in the
- woods he refers to it as the beastie. None of the boys really believe him, but
- in all their minds it gets them thinking and worring about what’s on the island,
- and if there are any beasts of some sort.
- The beast occurs any time the boys are frightened. If they hear a noise
- in the woods it must have be the beast. If they see something that scares
- them it must be the beast. This freightenment works the boys up so much that
- their primary goal is to kill the beast. In the end they kill themselves, and
- they realize that they were running from themselves. The beast never existed
- anywhere, but in their heads.
- I think the author, Golding, felt the same why when he wrote the book.
- The beast is the boys, and it ends up being their worst nightmare, and they
- don’t even know it. That interpetation of the beast changed throughout the
- book and i began to realize what the author meant by “the beast.”
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