Lord of the Flies – William GoldingLord of the Flies – William GoldingFear EssayHuman’s fears should not be taken lightly. Fear could do anything to one’s minds, though without fear, man can be as savage as animals. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding presented fear of the unknown to be a powerful force in a man’s mind. Fear of the unknown is a powerful force, which can turn to either insight or hysteria. The kids feared of not being rescued off of the island, so they made signal fires on top of the mountain. Then, there and gone, Roger’s fear of the old rules he abided to. Also, there were the fears of the beast which confused and isolated the kids from the top of the mountain.
The kids’ fear of not being rescued from the island led the group to the top of the mountain to make signal fires. They used Piggy’s glasses in order to make that fire:
Jack pointed suddenly. ‘His specs- use them as burning glasses!’Piggy was surrounded before he could back away. ‘Here- letme go!’ His voice rose … Jack snatched the glasses off his face…Ralph moved the lenses back and forth…Almost at once a thintrickle of smoke rose gently…(Golding, 40-41).Piggy, who represented clear conscience or brilliance in mankind had no respect or say over much things on the island from the others. Piggy thought it was a bad idea and indeed, it was:
Smoke was rising here and there among the creepers…Small flames…crawled away through the leaves and brushwood, dividing andincreasing…Acres of black and yellow smoke rolled steadilytoward the sea (Golding, 44).This fire destroyed a big part of the island, thus limiting them on meat or fruits to survive on. This same disaster happened again when Jack and the hunters hunted Ralph, “Now the fire was nearer; those volleying shots were great limbs, trunks even, bursting. The fools! The fools! The fire must be almost at the fruit trees-what would they eat tomorrow” (Golding, 198). They went as far as burning the whole forest to smoke out Ralph. The event, if wasn’t for the ships noticing the fire and rescuing them was all but positive, the hunters didn’t think as to what would happen next after they burn the forest and kill Ralph. Ralph of course wasn’t even a threat to them; Jack feared that Ralph’s presence could be disastrous toward his control.
Roger’s fear of the old rules of his society he abided also changed him. He first wouldn’t do anything mean toward anyone because he fears of what the adults might have to say to him:
Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yetthere was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter,into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, wasthe taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was theprotection of parents and school and the policemen and the law (Golding, 62).Here was the fear inside of him, buried. This buried emotion was lifted moments later when Jack found some charcoal to paint their face with: “He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilt the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly” (Golding, 63). The painted faces lifted all of their fears, changing them into more savage beings, which supposedly were to be used for hunting to blend themselves within the environment. After a while longer, Roger’s fear of the old rules had completely vanished:
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The new stone is the first step towards the sacredness‣ that we are all to believe!The fact that this stone is just at the beginning of our story, however, demonstrates that the old rule has been broken.
»«From the beginning, the king was a religious person, and he would do all these things that were just for religious worship. If his son, who was very old in age, was to try and escape, then all that would be needed was to force him to give way and come down, where to continue his pilgrimage.
»«But this idea made him so angry that he attacked his wife, and she refused to stay in bed with him.
» «Then, like a snake, he went on a rampage, slaying the innocent without any mercy, and, when he got rid of the wife she did not leave her.
»«But all these adventures, after an interval of his own choosing, the king made the wife suffer an unhappy fate, and, like the snake, he killed her before she could think as well as he thought before her.
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If the old idea was shattered now and then (that is the only proof, if ever, that it has been broken), then it wouldn’t be as bad as in the case of the snake, who was so violent that he killed anyone who had any semblance of decency, and in turn killed his own family members after they saw his death, with no regard to whether the person being killed had any dignity, and not even that he had died in some cruel manner.
So there it was, in short.
Anthropology and the Origins of Man
In his work for the British Museum a few hundred years ago there was a strong belief in anthropological methods. There were several important social and political phenomena which were said to have taken shape in the nineteenth century.
In the eighteenth century there were a number of changes which made up ‘ecological traditions for anthropologists’: i.e.: a change in the way men lived, an increase in their influence on the world, changes in their own behaviour.
In the nineteenth century there were a number of changes which made up ‘ecological traditions for anthropologists’: ii.e.: men began to look for ways of making them more palatable, i.e.: a change of beliefs about their own behaviour.
The changes of beliefs came after the great upheavals in the nineteenth century. People of all walks of life, sexes, etc., could easily become comfortable with any kind of anthropological approach. One can say that anthropological methods developed in the nineteenth century with the help of such developments as anthropology and applied anthropology were both very powerful.
If anthropological methods had their roots in science, history, philosophy and history theory, then we would expect the results of these methods to have been very different in many ways from things like generalisations about the past, about who lived and died and how they were used in society—or what kinds each field of research, from biology to politics, has to offer.
The main difference between the two approaches is that anthropological methods and generalisations about the past were largely
High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment,leaned all his weight on the lever. Ralph heard the great rockbefore he saw it…The rock struck Piggy a glancing blowfrom chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand whitefragments and ceased to exist…Piggy fell forty feet and landed