FREE ESSAY ON THE FEAR OF FEAR

THE FEAR OF FEAR

The Fear of Fear
In The Lord of the Flies, fear is the cause of all destruction and violence, which leads
to savagery, and disobeying of human morals. Throughout the entire book fear is what
drives these young innocent boys into savagery, and what also pulls most of them away
from expectable human behavior. Without the normal rules of society helping to guide
them, they become disoriented with the new surroundings, therefore freighting them into
savage ways.
After the traumatic plane crash the boys became frightened because their world of comfort
was no longer visible, and a dark scary place awaited their arrival. Fear inside of them
became greater but the boys did not to show their fear. While struggling to get through
the jungle Piggy gets caught up in tree vines, frustrated he yelled out "I can't hardly
move with all these creeper things." (Pg.7 Golding) With out even realizing it Piggy
shows how his fear turns things that are beautiful in nature into things to beware. Now
with the danger of many creatures / animals, they decide to hunt. Hunt because in the
mind of the hunters getting rescued is not in the future, and to survive is to kill, and
to kill is to stay alive. So fear of not getting rescued sets in and the children start
to hunt and destroy. 
With the threat of the beastie the hunters are extra cautious so they build a fire on the
beach and they hold a gathering. The fire represent the safeness of light and the
gathering keeps everyone together, so as a group, are not scared. They start to dance and
circle around the fire, meanwhile Simon knowing the truth about the beastie hurries to
tell the boys, "The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It
came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a
pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe. Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his
blood! Do him in!"(Pg.152 Golding) The beast was now turned into innocent Simon and
because of the fear inside the jungle, and inside themselves, Simon was brutally beaten
and killed by the other boys as the mother pig was with her young. The killing of Simon
showed how fear caused disorientation in reality. Simon having no fear, was the one who
had the answer. The beast is within us; there is nothing to fear. Simon used no violence
and came face to face with the beast. He knew the truth. 
Bibliography
The book Lord of the Flies