The Lord of the Flies by WIlliam Golding: Fear

In our culture there have long been good or evil-based religions and cults that use some form of fear to maintain their followers: fear of god, fear of Satan, etc... The way Jack uses the beast in Lord of the Flies by William Golding shows that savagery uses a religion based around a common fear to manipulate the masses. This theme from the book clearly describes the way humans stick together and resort to fairly extreme ways of dealing with a common 'enemy'. The book mainly deals with sadistic or evil-based human urges that create a violent yet real religious conviction. In this case,…