Lord of the Flies : Attitudes toward the beast
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NAME	SUMMARY	QUOTE
Ralph	Wants to talk about it, and decide that its not real, says he is scared too sometimes, but the fear is only circumstantial, never gives himself a chance to look at the situation, too bothered trying to convince others that there is not one, he may have missed something himself , he has convinced himself that there is no beast	“We’ve got to talk about this fear and decide that there’s nothing in it. I get frightened myself sometimes, only that’s nonsense!” (p.102) “What’s all this? Who said anything about an animal?” “You did, the other day.” (p.103)
Piggy	Takes a scientific approach, more rational, says he knows that there is no beast, not worried in the slightest	“Life, is scientific…I know there isn’t no beast…but I know there isn’t no fear either.” (p.105)
Jack	Tries to scare littluns into believing that there is no beast, says that there could be one, but if there was, he would kill it, thinks it impossible he could have not seen it, may be scared, but he would never admit it.	“Well I’ve been all over this island…If there was a beast, I’d have seen it. Be frightened because you’re like that-but there is no beast in the forest.” (p.104)
Simon	Thinks that there could be a beast, though he is hesitant to admit that, knows more than he gets to say, never gets a chance to carry on	“Maybe,” he said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast.”(p.110) “I don’t know,”… Then the storm broke.
Phil	Dreams of weird animals, and saw what he thought was a beast, but was Simon, he is frightened	“And I was frightened…and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.” (p.106)
Percival	Very upset, thinks it comes out of the sea, he has definitely seen something, as I do not think he would be so upset otherwise	“He says it comes out of the sea.” (p.109) “His face puckered, the tears leapt from his eyes.” (p.108)
Maurice	Agrees that it could come out of the sea, says that Jack can’t possibly be sure that there are just pigs on the island. He is not sure whether there is a monster or not, he does not seem very scared, compared to the other littluns	“Daddy says they haven’t found all the animals in the sea yet” (p.109) “But when he says there’s only pigs on the island I expect he’s right but he doesn’t know, not really, not certainly I mean” (p.110)

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