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Beads of perspiration, pumping blood, and muscles tensing as every hair stand on edge. These are instinctual behaviors, subconscious reactions to an alarming disturbance in the environment. Fleeing comes to mind but is dismissed by the off chance of an encounter with the ‘unknown.’ After all, there may be something lurking in the shadows. This is fear in its most natural state; the gut retching mystery of the unknown that consumes all rationale. Fear exposes the most primal human reaction; a trait depicted in the boys of Lord of the Flies, where an ingrained reaction to self-preservation overcomes wit, reasoning, and conscious forethought and illustrates the darkest characteristics in man. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the boys were intrigued by the island and were having a marvelous time without any restraints. The first sense of alarm came from a littlun who conjured up a ‘beastie’