Question

50 POINTS PLEASE HELP (e) While part of the party searching for the Beast, Simon realizes that the notion of the Beast that the other boys have does not make sense. A beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. Simon has a different picture of the Beast: "There rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." How does this picture relate to the Beast that Samneric saw? How does it relate to what Simon said earlier about the Beast being "only us"?

Answer 1

I think that the beast they saw was one of them and the beast being "only us" refers to them as they have become. They were once human but in being trapped for so long alone in the wild they have become the beast. They are no longer just little boys but have reverted to becoming the wild beast within. They have given in to their own animal nature for the sake of their survival.