Title Essays - Fiction, Literature, Allegory, Lord Of The Flies

Title Essays - Fiction, Literature, Allegory, Lord Of The Flies Title We as humans never want to see ourselves as the problem, we are constantly putting the blame on someone else. In the book The Lord Of the Flies, the boys are looking for a monster or a beast. They, while searching for the beast, become the monster themselves. Golding shows human inability to except responsibility of their evil. As the boys blame their inhuman actions on the beast rather than to accept the evil within. In the beginning of the book Simon and Piggy suggest that maybe they, the boys, are the beasts," Maybe there is a beast [] maybe it's only us." (Golding) As the suggestions are made, they are laughed off by the other boys. This is the first time the boys were unable to except even the thought of the evil within. Their inability to except what they are now becoming leads to their failure to believe what they later become. Simon talking to the Lord of the Flies is a turning point for him, because he realizes that the beast is only them and it wasn't something they could hunt down and kill," Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?" (Golding) He later becomes not only afraid of himself, but of the other boys. Throughout the book the boys demonstrate inhuman actions, each time blaming it on the beast. Actions soon becoming increasingly worse soon lead up to the death of Simon. The boys fear of themselves ultimately lead to loss of their innocence and the beginning of a monster.