In Chapter 8, Jack and his hunters had killed the mother pig and put her head on a stick for the beast. Later in the chapter, Simon finds the pig’s head on a stick. Simon is a little out of it and slightly delusional and ‘talks’ to the pig. Although, it’s more of his ‘good side’ verses ‘evil side’ conflicting. On page 143, the pig says, “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the beast.” When I read this line I thought that Golding was indicating that the pig was actually the beast and not just the boys themselves. This is so because the pigs are bringing out the savageness in the boys by making them want to kill, which is causing chaos throughout the island; therefore, making the pigs the beast–the one who brings out the worst in the boys. So when I read that and pieced it together in that aspect, I thought the beast was the boys, but also partially the pigs. But after discussion in class, I see that the beast is really just the boys themselves, but the pig being the beast was just another way that I had looked at it.
-Kearsten
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