Notes

I feel that the Beast (the pigs head) is the fear of the boys of what they have within: savagery. The pigs head calls himself "the Lord of the Flies." Throughout the book. the boys try to kill the boar and they are also scared of the Beast (which happens to also be the boar). The boar (even though he is dead) talks to Simon (who seems to be the only person who ISN'T a complete savage and also my favorite character.) Through their meeting, the LOTF says that "they' (him and the boys) and going to have fun and kill him. The boar's head is the savagery and demons inside of the boys and how they have let go from their civilized ways and have become these unrecognizable beasts whose definition of "fun" is killing the only person who is sane.

However the pigs head can not only resemble the evil inside of the boys, but in ourselves. We are taught from since we can talk, that we cannot be evil and bad things come to those who are. SO we refrain from it. However, deep inside we still have that primitive way of thinking. Just like the boys we fear it, but we mostly just fear ourselves.