The intensity of the adjectives reaches a climax right before the “beast” is killed and when the boys turn into animals. The adjectives get more intense as the scene goes on, using words like demented, dark, blind, urgent, unbearable. The vulnerability of the "beast" as it comes out of the forest is not taken into account by the boys, that maybe the "beast" has feelings and is scared. The boys do not try to make peaceful contact or communication with the foreign living being in front of them. There were no words, no movements but the tearing of the teeth and claws (153)." Here, the reenactment has turned into an execution of the "beast". "At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. This beast is no beast at all, but fear disguising Simon as a monster. In the scene where the boys on the island portray the killing of a pig, the “beast” emerges from the forest. Readers of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, view the boys on the island the same way colonists view the “savages” they colonized. However, killing for no reason and screaming threatening chants are no great deeds either. However, what does someone consider to be savage? Stripping families from their home lands? Not allowing the conservation of one's culture? Physically abusing others? They all can be seen as unacceptable acts by those in the “civilized” world, and yet they are all acts that were perpetrated by supposedly “civilized” colonists as they. What makes an individual or a culture uncivilized? Some people may say lack of order, while others could say not socially advanced.
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