Jack said, "You Littluns started all this! With the fear talk. Beasts! Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. Only Ralph says your scream in the night. What does that mean but nightmares? Anyway, you don’t hunt or build or help--you useless lot of cry babies! That’s what. And as for the fear-- you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us." (Golding, pg 75) This depicts that when fear begins to build up inside of humans, humans begin to turn toward other people around them to take out the blame. It gives a view of how much hatred and selfishness man is capable of holding. Golding’s use of a beast to symbolize evil is extremely brilliant for the word "beast" itself connotes anything but the
Jack said, "You Littluns started all this! With the fear talk. Beasts! Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. Only Ralph says your scream in the night. What does that mean but nightmares? Anyway, you don’t hunt or build or help--you useless lot of cry babies! That’s what. And as for the fear-- you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us." (Golding, pg 75) This depicts that when fear begins to build up inside of humans, humans begin to turn toward other people around them to take out the blame. It gives a view of how much hatred and selfishness man is capable of holding. Golding’s use of a beast to symbolize evil is extremely brilliant for the word "beast" itself connotes anything but the