Lord of the Flies

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   dramaxoqueen Student
   High School - 9th Grade

   Ralph attempts to use reason to dispel the littluns' fears. But Ralph is "facing something ungraspable," and he can only react in frustration with a blanket denial: "But I tell you there isn't a beast!" To the littluns, this assertion is utterly inadequate. Their fears are not rational. Ralph somehow understands this, but can't quite articulare it; nor can he find words to allay the children's terror.

   This is symbolic of the novel's ongoing conflict between the rational and the irrational, between the cerebral and the instinctual.

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   dramaxoqueen Student
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   also they have the fear that they are going to be starnded on the land forever and nobody is going come and help them out

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   Posted by dramaxoqueen on Thursday November 13, 2008 at 4:55 PM
   
   

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