Pleasure and Disquietude in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Lord of the Flies, while containing some sources of pleasure, is a very disquieting book; the setting, the antagonist, the epiphany, and many of the story's events all contribute to the disturbance of the reader. The story takes place on an uninhabited island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean; it is miles and miles from any known civilization. The characters are first met after stepping out of a scar in the dense forest …

…the beast and who the "beast" on the mountain really is, when he is murdered. When Simon realizes that humans are evil to the very core and is then brutally murdered by his friends this epiphany is driven home to the reader. This is a very terrifying revelation. It means that there is evil inside we, the reader, trapped in a precarious balance just waiting to snap, and that in some of us it does.