H. P. Lovecraft
wrote: The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and
the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. Fear
is a chemical reaction that takes place in the same part of the
human brain as excitement and happiness; that is what makes it so
addictive to some (Javanbakht & Saab 1). However, fear is not
always a good thing; it can compel people to do things that in
normality, they would not normally do. Lord of the Flies is an
allegory written by William Golding to exemplify fear and its
effect. Golding also uses the book to symbolize the events of World
War II. The characters in the book point back to important figures
of the war with actions that match up in ways to show how impactful
the war was. In the
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He says, Maybe
there is a beast
Maybe its only us (Golding 77). The boys
believe the best solution for ridding the island of the beast is to
kill it. Desire for blood and killing begins to rise in them,
causing them to give into their evil sides. The Lord of the Flies
is the evil burgeoning through the island; the boys are unaware
that they have vivified the power of evil. Similarly, as the beast
is to the boys, psychological warfare was to
the
holocaustvictims (Rosenthal 1). Psychological warfare is the
application of unhostile, precisely planned threats, propaganda,
and other tactical moves for one side of a war to advance before
the other; it is used to get into the opponents head and force
them to make decisions based from their fear (Longleyguest 1). If a
person is feared, they can force the prey to do things or act a
certain way that is of the abusers wishing. In Lord of the Flies,
Jack makes the other boys fear him and with his power he starts to
manipulate them, Im scared of him, says Piggy. And thats why I
know him. If youre scared of someone you hate him, but you cant
stop thinking about him (Golding 81). When the people in World War
II were hit with psychological warfare from the Nazis, they fear
them and were more likely to do as they
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He would wake
up at night with terrifying nightmares of his experience; the same
occurrence happened to survivor Eve Kugler (Goldhill 1). They kept
on suffering in the form of PTSD until their deaths after their
time in the camps. Sonia Reich was reported to have been seen
screaming that someone was trying to kill her, while running out of
her house (Rosenthal 1). Sonia experienced the holocaust as a
pre-adolescent Jew who ran away to America post-wartime after her
entire family had been killed (Rosenthal 1). Many more people
suffered from the war with PTSD for the rest of their lives. The
boys on the island in Lord of the Flies most likely faced the same
issue; they developed a new way of living on the island and
resorted to the nonchalantly killing each other. When they returned
to England the boys had to remember the ways they were before, but
they had forgotten. One littlun showed that, One of them came
close to the officer and looked up. Im, Im- But there was no
more to come. Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an
incantation that had faded clean away (Golding 181). They lost
everything that they were and had to rebuild themselves, but they
are just young boys with still-developing brains. They could not
possibly let go of everything that they had become on
the
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