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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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