He’s going to beat Wilfred.
What for?
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Robert shook his head doubtfully. I don’t know. He didn’t say. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up (176).
Jack beats up members of his tribe for no reason at all, except to instill upon them the fear of himself. Soon, everyone is afraid of Roger also. The twins are forced to join Jack’s tribe and are terrified of Roger. ”You don’t know Roger. He’s a terror.” “-and the Chief – they’re both-“ “-terrors.” “-only Roger-“” (210). The boys in the tribe are soon fearing for their lives. They are still afraid of the beast, but now they are even more afraid of Jack and Roger, especially Ralph because he is being hunted by them. Fear is what brought these boys together in Jack’s tribe, but fear is also what broke them up in Ralph’s tribe.
Fear causes the boys on the island to break up and to fight. At first, everything is great; there are rules that are being followed and the boys are having fun. Then a beast is mentioned and the boys’ fears surface. At first, there are arguments about if there even is a beast. This causes arguments and some tension between Jack and Ralph. Jack states that he will hunt and kill the beast, but Ralph keeps arguing that there is none (35). When it is proven that there is a beast on the mountain, that is when things go very bad. Jacks says that Ralph stayed behind on the mountaintop while he and Roger went ahead (139). This showed cowardice and Jack thinks that he should become the leader; the boys once again vote for Ralph and Jack leaves the group angrily. Soon all of the boys leave the group to join Jack except for the twins, Piggy and Jack himself. They are left alone. Piggy is then killed and the twins are forced to join Jack’s tribe.
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Jack’s tribe goes on a hunt for Ralph and Ralph is afraid. He is no longer afraid of the beast or of not being rescued; Ralph is afraid of Jack. Jack has used the fear of himself to take over the island. The breaking up all started with fear and the fights and arguments were all caused by fear. Fear is the source of trouble on the island and what originally caused those fears was the beast.
The boys’ first fears are of beasts that don’t physically exist. The boys’ fear all starts with a littlun known as the mulberry mark boy. “Now he says it was a beastie” (34). He puts the thought of a beastie into everyone’s minds, causing everyone to think of the dangers of the island. Before this, the island had been a fantasy for the boys; no parents, no rules no consequences. This beastie is dismissed as a nightmare by the bigguns, but as time goes on, the beast starts becoming real. Jack is the one who makes the beast become real when he says that he will hunt and kill it (35). No one has truly seen a beast, but it has already become real. For a short time, some stop believing in the beast because Jack has been over the whole island and he has never seen anything, but the fear is
still there. They stop believing until it is brought up again at an assembly and a littlun by the name of Percival Wemys Madison says that the beastie comes out of the sea. Once again, all of the boys are afraid. When the twins, Samneric, see a beast sitting on top of the mountain and Ralph, Jack and Roger confirm what the twins saw, there is complete fear. No one is willing to walk alone or even to go deep into the forests, except for Simon. The boys are terrified and this is when
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things start to break up. Now, the fear moves on from what they think is the beast to something much more dangerous. Now, they are afraid of each other.
At first the island is thought to be a paradise by the boys. It is a dream come true. The boys are living every child’s fantasy. Then things start to go horribly wrong. Fear sets in. In this novel, William Golding illustrates that fear is everywhere and can wreak havoc on many things. In this case the boys become afraid of each other and for all of them survival becomes impossible. They eventually they realize that dreams can easily turn into nightmares.
