In the book The Lord of the Flies the beast turns out to be the boys worst enemy even though it never really existed. The beast turned out to be the boys themselves. They were all scared the beast would kill them, but they ended up hurting or killing themselves just by defending themselves from the so called “beast.” The first sign of the beast was when the boys were first scared. When the little …showed first 75 words of 261 total…

…showed last 75 words of 261 total…kill themselves, and they realize that they were running from themselves. The beast never existed anywhere, but in their heads. I think the author, Golding, felt the same why when he wrote the book. The beast is the boys, and it ends up being their worst nightmare, and they don’t even know it. That interpetation of the beast changed throughout the book and i began to realize what the author meant by “the beast.”