Mob Mentality in William Golding’s
...h the fire and the boys scattered through the upper forest. To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end and no one looked further." When Simon came down off the mountain and was murdered is another good example. None of the boys thought about what they were doing until it was too late. "That was murder." as said by Ralph. If the boys had thought about the results of their actions, they would have stopped immediately. It was easier, almost natural, though to just go with the flow than to deviate from the crowd. The best example, however, is when the boys hunted Ralph. Few, if any, of the boys wanted to kill Ralph. They were merely following orders, but they all just went along with the crowd and the situation became savage. Mob mentality ruled at that moment. Had they not gotten caught up in it, they would have traded p...