What do you think is the importance of the beast in Lord of the Flies?(27 marks)In ‘Lord of the Flies’, the beast is introduced to create an element of fear in the idyllic island. It shows how fear will change the boys and catalyse their descent into savagery.When first introduced, the ‘beastie’ is a ‘snake-thing’. The ‘snake’ could be a reference to the Devil, in the form of a snake, tempting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. During the boy’s explanation, he says that he saw the beast ‘in the dark’. Darkness comes to become a device by Golding that the boys use to conceal and excuse their savage and evil ways so it was suitable that the first
