Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

It is a very arguable subject on whether or not people are born with good intentions, and therefore taught by others the ‘evil’ side of their personality. Whether it is the absence of ethical conduct in human nature, or just the way one perceives a situation, evil seems to be prominent in our everyday lives. Humans seem to have a moral code that follows them with every decision they make, yet despite the laws of morality and society, people of this world still seem to behave inhumanely because of the act of self-preservation, human interest, and who exactly the authority figure is at the time.

When the entire group is scared of the beastie, Jack says, "The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream"-(82). Jack tries to act in charge but to the rest of the group, he just sounds absurd. He tries to use his conscience to calm the group down, but he does not have anyone helping him, and it makes him sound insensitive. When the group is hunting, their id takes over completely for a short period of time and they start chanting, "Kill the pig! Cut his throat!

You should have seen the blood! " (Golding 83)" - "The. It can also drive people to live only for the basic needs of life and forget about civilization or the other people around them. Xiaofang Li & Weihua Wu. These things together show that Jack really feels the pleasure of killing pigs and he will do anything to anyone with the finality to survive without doubt.

He is aggressive, power-hungry, and he doesn’t think. Jack is not logical at all. All he wants is to be the leader of the boys, hunt pigs, and kill the beast. The beast is first mentioned when one of the littluns says, “He still says he saw the beastie. It came and went away again an’ came back and wanted to eat him-”

In the heat of the moment, murdering a pig was more valuable to Jack than getting rescued. Human nature acts in many ways, one of which being immense feelings, which Jack has towards hunting. The thought of hunting, killing, and torturing has taken his life and priorities to the point where he’d rather be on an island with potential targets than rescued, at home with his family. Moreover, when Ralph and his few supporters go over to Jack’s feast to eat, they get in a ritual-like circle as if in a trance and chant “‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat.

Later, Jack and his hunters display another example of human evil with the gruesome slaughtering of a pig. They don’t just stab it to death and get it over with, but carry on deranged acts like taking a stick sharpened at both ends, with one side in the ground and the other for the pig to be impaled on. They take joy in the blood of the pig and show odd sexual hunger when they sodomize the pig with a stick.

In William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies”, the novel simulates aspects of raw human nature. One part of this human nature is the division between good and evil, and how it plays a role in the personality of a human. This idea, develops a concept throughout the story. It is that in every person, there is a level of evil and savagery, this cannot be manipulated, but the level of which one displays it can. It develops personality, some people will tend to hold in their anger or distaste, and others will let it loose, altering the personality among people. In “Lord of the Flies”, this level of evil that is shown, varies in each character among the island.

The isolation that comes with crashing on a deserted island affects all the characters, seen most dramatically through Jack. Being brought into this setting transforms the civilized choir leader into a savage hunter and murderer who’s given into his inner demons. When the boys first crash land onto the island, they were proper English schoolboys. Due to the separation from society, however, the boys start to regress, giving in to their more animalistic instincts. Jack starts off as the ‘‘chapter chorister and head boy’” who tries to take leadership of the tribe the boys form; he fails to do so, turning him away from order and reason (Golding 22). He neglects his duties and turns his attention to hunting the native pigs, prompting him to let the fire, their gateway back to society, go out; this pits Ralph against Jack, who represent civilization and savagery

(Golding 33). Being stranded on the island has majorly changed Jack, he is praised for killing pigs because of it supply of meat. The amount of praise and the feeling of victory after a kill has caused Jack to go mad. The society within the island has corrupted Jack and many of his hunters because they are praised so greatly for killing a pig that they have now adapted this hunting as an evil game, the hunts are no longer for food but instead for self pride, and praise, and power.

Lord of the Flies is a book of ideas and an allegory. The author, William Golding, uses imagery, characters, and plot for one purpose: to tell the world about his beliefs. He believes that society is the only thing that keeps humanity from falling into anarchy. In order to demonstrate this, he uses the boys on the island to show the reader what happens when humans are left to their own devices. Over the course of the novel, each of the boys undergoes a transformation into crueler, more animalistic versions of their civilized selves. The bully becomes a dictator, the quiet, shy boy reveals his true, more-violent colors, and the virtuous are slaughtered or succumb to savagery themselves. The acts of cruelty start as teasing and arguing but soon turn into murder and war. In Lord of the Flies, acts of cruelty show how characters like Jack, Roger, and Ralph transform slowly, and these acts of violence aid Golding in exhibiting his ideas about human nature.

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding has different point of views on human beings. While the boys were confined on the island, they displayed the different sides of human nature. Throughout the story, despite the tough situations they encountered, the boys had shown a kind heart in their society. Two ideas that support this claim are being able to stay true to oneself, despite the natural pleasure of evil and good people showing remorse to actions that they regret. To begin with, the strong hearted boys were able to fight from the evil within them, even though there is a natural instinct.

Human nature is the “general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind”. Between the Book, Lord of the flies and The Crucible, human nature is strongly portrayed through similar characters such as Simon and Mary Warren, Satan/Devil and the Beast, and Jack and Abigail. Simon and Mary Warren both share their wise and kind traits and being bringers of truth, while Satan/Devil and the Beast share the characteristic of exotic and the unknown, both are also able to bring out each person’s human nature like Jack and Abigail’s, which is consisted of being selfish liars. Lastly, Jack and Abigail, who both portray betrayal and the same characteristics of being evil, lying , and selfishness.

Since the beginning of civilization, humans have pondered about, debated, and eventually solved a plethora of disputes, from the shape of the planet to the history of mankind. However, one fundamental question still remains ambivalent. The contention over human nature has drawn in many differing views from philosophers and scholars throughout history; among these is William Golding. In his novel Lord of the Flies, Golding writes about a group of schoolboys who are stranded on an uninhabited island in the midst of a world war. At first, the boys attempt to recreate society by establishing law and order, but over time, their civil values diminish as they turn to savagery and evil.

There is no external beast. Simon speaks these words in Chapter 5, during the meeting in which the boys discussed the beast. One littlun has this idea that the beast may hide in the ocean that surrounds the island during the day and emerge only at night, and the boys argue about whether the beast actually exists or not. Jack does not take the littlun's fear seriously since he assume that he can hunt the beast. Simon, meanwhile, proposes that maybe the beast lives within the boys themselves.

Golding uses hunting throughout the novel to express the changing of human beings into savages. Throughout the novel we see the character Jack start to evolve from this innocent boy into a savage when he starts hunting, “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Golding 58). Jack used hunting as a way to survive and believed that only hunting and killing were the only tools used to survive. His desire to hunt lead to a desire to kill. Jack loved to hunt that killing came easy to him, “His mind was crowded with memories: