Evil In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

While humans try their best to stop evil intentions, evil eventually overcomes. Although humans are ignorant and live their lives normally, evil finds a way to pounce on society. In order to suppress evil dominion is needed in the world. This is demonstrated in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. In this novel, when a horrific plane crashes on an island, a handful of boarding school boys find themselves stranded on a tropical island at a time during World War II. On the island, they govern themselves, hunt, and figure things out while waiting to be rescued. As time passes, there is conflict between two main characters, Jack and Ralph, who take on leadership roles. Another main character named Simon, is a mystical boy who spends time by himself

Lord of the Flies, A novel written by William Golding, teaches many themes of human nature some true and some faulty. When a group of young british boys crash land into the ocean, they find themselves stranded on an undiscovered island. No one could anticipate what these civilised boys would turn into as time went on. From proper, clean-cut, disciplined schoolboys they slowly morph into the opposite of their initial characters. Throughout the story the boys turn to their primitive sides and begin to show an unknown evil inside of them, while killing each other and forming clans. As the audience sits back and observes, it is almost impossible to not compare the boys to the rest of mankind. After all they are Golding’s little human nature experiment.

As humans, are we fundamentally good or evil? If left alone on a desert island without any outside influences, would we tend toward cruelty or would we maintain the rules and morals that structure our modern day society? According to traditional christian belief, people are born with a sinful or evil nature. More popular beliefs however view humans as inherently good, only corrupted by the influence of their environment. William Golding addresses this very theme in Lord Of The Flies. Through character development and symbolism, Golding implies that we are born intrinsically evil and without the boundaries that society dictates, our evil natures will overtake us and lead to our destruction.

Evil is and forever will be as old as the human race itself. Evil is inherent in humanity. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies depicts a group of boys consumed by chaos as they destroy not only their civilization, but also their morality and culture. William Golding utilizes Jack Merridew to justify his opinion that evil is a part of human nature.

William Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ is used to explore the basis that humans are evil by nature. William Golding Suggests that humans are evil by providing similarities between the features of a man and the image of the beast. William Golding uses the characters in the novel to show man’s ability to perform an evil act, throughout the novel some of the characters come to the realization that what they had done is evil but little remorse is shown.

It was once declared, by Douglas Preston,“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.” Every individual, no matter gender, race, or religion, has evil within them. Preston believes that is not a matter of whether someone is evil or not, but to what extent the evil within them endures. William Golding also portrays this idea of inseparable evil within his novel, Lord of the Flies, which follows a group of British boys, stranded on an island, as their civility turns to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, Golding is able to illustrate his belief that all of mankind is innately evil, and that it is an elemental part of human nature for the evil of mankind to be induced in situations without societal structure and law and

Philosophers and psychologists have studied the human nature and wonder whether humans are morally good and selfless or innately evil and selfish. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, perceives civilization and order as good, and any lifestyle straying from civilization is evil. Golding portrays this struggle between civilised and savage aspects of human nature by a group of British boys, who are too young to have moral convictions of their own. Golding uses the symbols of Ralph, the Beast, and the naval officer to convey the fundamental human instinct to resort to being savage when apart from civilization.

In the story Lord of the Flies by William Golding shows us how the kids can become good or evil. In the beginning of the story the boys are good because they have faith and hope. Then when time passes the boys change because they are losing hope to go back to their home so they do anything to survive.

William Golding’s novel the Lord of the Flies shows man’s wild side. Critics claim that the depressing story of boys losing their innocence is attempting to convey that mankind is evil, and underlying evil will always be present. William Golding told a truly marvelous tale of boys, survival and morals. In the beginning of the story, the boys all co-operated and were filled with hope of getting home to England. While time wears on, the boys become less tame; they become savages obsessed with killing.

Is all human being kind? Is all human evil? The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding was published in 1954. The author William Golding wants to express his real-life violence and brutality occurred to him from WWII by written this novel. When the boys first crashed on to the island, they were still pure and innocent. As their desire for wanting more power, they became cruel and savagery as the time flow. There were also people like Simon that stay pure and kind. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, he uses the beast as a symbol of the hidden evil or savagery inside them and Simon to represent the goodness in the book. Ultimately, these two symbols prove that people are essentially good, but there will always be a little

Good and evil are in a constant battle between each where ever good exist there is evil right behind it. Evil has been around science the beginning of time, like shadow with light there is evil with good. In both The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Lord of the Flies by William Golding someone is becoming evil. Everyone possess the ability to be both good and evil but the emotion that surfaces depends on the situations people are placed in. Stressful situations are one-way people become evil.

The Lord of the Flies brings great denial in Simon as he does not want to believe that the Lord of the Flies is responsible for the change in the boys and that it is seen in himself too: “They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned” (Golding 138). The Lord of Flies appears when Simon witnesses the savage boys kill the pig and is symbolic of the boys change from their moral selves. Simon does not want to admit to the fact that he also has the potential to give in to the Lord of the Flies, but it is clear that it exists in everyone. In attempts to get rid of the Lord of the Flies who is cutting ties with his civilization, Ralph truly becomes what he’s feared the whole time “Then he was licking his bruised knuckles and looking at the bare stick, while the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across” (Golding 185). Ralph destroys the skull by sheer force which only ends up coming back to haunt him because in reality, he’s giving The Lord of the Flies exactly what he wants. His use of savagery truly ignites the lord of the flies within him and is symbolic of his change to a savage. In addition to the most prominent, the symbol of the lord of the flies is also the most climactic as it is representative of the complete change that comes of the boys and their lives on the

About 37,000 years ago Adam and Eve were God’s first human creations. There was no sin or evil on this earth until Eve ate the apple off of the forbidden tree. After Eve made that mistake that caused the rest of humankind to be born with original sin. Humans are essentially born bad and start to act good when they like a person or feel comfortable with them. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, he has us questioning whether humans are essentially born good or bad.

In the dictionary, the definition of evil is morally wrong or bad; malicious. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, exemplifies how everyone in society is more evil than good and how it can get the best of all. The book actively traces the problems of society back to human nature and savagery that lies within the human race. Golding shows how the lacking parental control & no rules, is the downfall of their humanity in as much as they lose the characteristics society and civilization gives them. Golding’s argument is that human nature can be very brutal, and he depicts it with his novel, showing the savage behaviors of children, killing each other for their own benefits in the end out of selfishness. Olsen states in her article, “Savages are not immoral but amoral; they are not bad merely because they do not know what it is to be good; for it is neither the development of understanding, nor the restraint of law that hinders them from doing ill; but the peacefulness of their passions, and their ignorance of vice.’” (Olsen 29)

A serene island in the middle of the vast space we call the ocean is the ideal picturesque vacation for many. A destroyed island with young British schoolboys running rampant with the once lush vegetation in flames… not so much. When a plane crash ashores British schoolboys in an unlikely situation of surviving with no adults, the island slowly transitioned from a place of tranquility to ruin due to their impulsive actions. In William Golding’s brillant allegory Lord of the Flies it is shown that man is evil as evidenced by his failure to maintain control politically, psychologically, and spiritually.