Hair In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

“All human beings are commingled out of good & evil” was a quote once said by notable Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson. This quotation discusses and supports William Golding’s, the author of Lord of the Flies, belief that all humans have a distinct character flaw that, when left unchecked by morals and laws of society, will eventually corrupt the individual. In Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, it’s shown how due to their environment and lack of supervision, the young boys slowly progress and evolve into barbaric, bloodthirsty individuals.

In William Golding’s novel, “The Lord of the Flies”, he displays human nature in an animalistic viewpoint that is not seen in “normal” people. He describes the unknown savagery of human beings, without missing the good nature found within us, which allows us to work as a well-organized group. World War Two is also used effectively as a backdrop, since it shows that the violence is found in everyone.

One’s behaviour can have an substantial impact on a society's outcome. There is a common notion that humans are nurtured to be peaceful and civil. However this belief is contradicted by the action of the boys, in William Golding’s, “Lord of the Flies”. A group of schoolboys are abruptly thrown out of their controlled and civil circumstances into an inhabited tropical island in the middle of the Pacific. The novel is Golding’s attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature, by using symbolism to delineate this theme. Golding’s extensive use of symbolism, such as the conch, the signal fire and the painted faces helps demonstrates the defects of society. These symbols are used by Golding to illuminate the subsequent effects on the boys’ behaviour, which undoubtedly illustrates the defects of human nature on society.

In our society, people are often cruel to one another in the want for personal gain, but this is restrained to mere social interactions and online in our industrial world. However, when we are separated from civilized society and the pressures that it places upon us, we are quick to turn to savage, cruel behavior to survive. Golding understood this idea, that we are only civilized when others are watching, and showed the possibility for even the purest to become affected by societal pressures in his novel, the Lord of the Flies. In order to show the role of cruelty in shaping the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding uses character archetypes, the idea of cosmic irony, and extended symbolism to highlight the inherent flaws of human nature and the potential for even the purest individuals to turn to cruel ways due to societal pressures.

Men, without rules, can be led towards destruction. Lord of the Flies depicts at first a group of boys trying to maintain order, and a later descent into savagery. One of the most direct, apparent examples of this is through Roger. Through the contrast of the self-restraint Roger has at the beginning of the novel and the murder he absentmindedly commits at the end, Golding illustrates how man’s desire for savagery is restrained only by the enforced civilization of society.

Although there is controversy about the creation of human life, there is little to deny the primitive behavior exhibited by the earliest humans. Over time, humanity learned, changed, and developed into what it is today. Despite a change in appearance and education, humans have never lost their primal inclinations. Throughout his novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding reveals humanity’s barbaric roots through the gradual deterioration of the boys’ uniforms.

    Despite the progression of civilization and society's attempts to suppress man's darker side, moral depravity proves both indestructible and inescapable; contrary to culturally embraced views of humanistic tendencies towards goodness, each individual is susceptible to his base, innate instincts. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, seemingly innocent schoolboys evolve into bloodthirsty savages as the latent evil within them emerges. Their regression into savagery is ironically paralleled by an intensifying fear of evil, and it culminates in several brutal slays as well as a frenzied manhunt. The graphic consequence of the boys' unrestrained barbarity, emphasized by the

In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding depicts the sinful nature of man, “maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” The book begins with a plane crash, which leaves a group of young boys stranded on an uninhabited island. Throughout the book, readers witness the boys losing their innocence while giving into savagery. By the end, most of the boys act upon their evil thoughts without a moment of hesitation. Although most people would think young boys couldn’t hurt anyone, Golding explains that even the most innocent people are inherently

Although humankind attempts its best at preventing evil actions, eventually evil rises above all else. While humans are living ordinary lives and living in ignorance, evil is always scheming and waiting to slide up behind the turned backs of society as depicted in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. One could argue that this is not the case and that good deeds always overshadow evil and that evil is just an occasional blip. However, what one’s opinion of society does not outshine the cold hard facts of humankind’s natural tendencies; specifically, how things are never as they seem, how easily humans can betray their emotions and how humans choose to ignore difficult situations in the search for an easy

Human nature is altered when there are no consequences. In the novel Lord of the Flies there are young boys stranded on an island, In order to survive the true characteristics of man come out. Some characters appear to be born angelic however some are naturally born evil. When a young boy named Roger murders a boy and rapes a pig there are no consequences. Rogers lack of remorse is then exacerbated when tossing a pebble at a young child turns into murdering a young boy with a boulder, which demonstrates that mankind's pure evil will not stay hidden when there are no consequences.

Our world is full of vicious, hazardous and dangerous aspects of life, but if there is anything we should be afraid of most, it is ourselves. William Golding’s 1954 World War II novel, Lord of the Flies, revolves around a group of English schoolboys whose plane crashes on an island after being shot out of the sky. The wilderness and lack of pre-existing society prompts them to develop a civilization, but things turn sour and man's malign nature quickly takes hold. The Lord of the Flies is not a physical being or object, but a representation of the idea that all humans are inherently evil and deep-rooted with masochistic, selfish instincts. Before one can understand how the Lord of the Flies represents innate evil, it is important that the three constituents of man’s depravity are explored.

As supported in Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies and Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming” it is clear that humans are imperfectly designed and doomed to fall into chaos if given the right circumstance. In Lord of the Flies, Golding aims to demonstrate humanity’s tendency to recur to ferocity. Golding’s work attempts to “trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature” (Epstein 204) through the story of a group of boys’ gradual fall from order.

An inner, unexplained impulse can drive a person to do something they never would have consciously done, especially when it is an action or even a thought they would have morally considered to be wrong. This concept of sub-moral curiosity is best exemplified in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in which the children are seen slowly abandoning society’s standard and exploring their wild, savage side. When Roger was tossing stones toward a younger boy, Henry, “there was a space around [the boy]...into which he dare not throw” (Golding 62). Roger experienced an inner urge to hurt Henry but because he still had ties to his moral, civilized side of his life, he gave himself a limit to which he would go away from his integrity. His inner curiosity drove his body to unconsciously threaten to harm the life of another human, his actions speaking for the savage possessed in him.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a modernist spinoff of an ordinary desert island story. After surviving a plane crash, a group of boys, ranging from age six to twelve, slowly deteriorate and become increasingly barbaric and uncivilized with the presence of no adults, laws, or punishments. Lord of the Flies is an allegory to support Sigmund Freud’s structural model of the psyche and suggest Golding’s view of human nature that humans aren’t safely civilized but obtain an inherent savagery. In fact, through the use of symbolic objects, Golding reinforces his suggestion that there is a duality of man and humans have primal impulses and will resume to their brutal ways when a civilized society is absent.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a gritty allegory of adolescence, innocence, and the unspoken side of human nature. Countless social issues are portrayed, however one of the most reoccurring is the nature of man. Throughout the novel there is an ever-present focus on the loss of innocence amongst the boys, shown by the deterioration of social skills and their retrogression into a barbaric form of society. Also portrayed is the juxtaposition of a cruel, evil main character and a more classically good counterpart, and their eternal rivalry for power and authority over their younger subjects. Does society or the lack thereof create evil in human nature, or simply magnify a pre-existing