William Golding

After serving as a WWII fighter pilot, Golding returned home no longer disallusioned. He had seen with his own eyes what evil and horrors of man is capable of committing. In his novel Lord of the Flies he used this new insight to imply that man should no actually fear a beast that he can touch and

feel, but rather the evil that each man is capable of committing.

Golding uses many examples of man fearing not a beast but man himself. one is on page 93. It

gives good detail about everybody being scared and worried. Then it says,"simon stirred in the

darkness" right after that Piggy says, "You shut up, young Sim...