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Who Is To Blame For The Environment In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies deals with a group of young boys, who are stranded on an island, due to a plane crash. While trying to survive on the island, the boys soon start to act like savages and display immoral behavior, and the book suddenly takes a sharp turn and become dark. Many things have been used to justify their behavior on the island, such as the biology of the human brain or the environment. Personally I blame the boys’ environment. In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, he wrote about characters who started of as young, innocent boys, who are soon consumed by dark and immoral human nature. The setting of the book was ‘Human vs Nature’, which deals with humans facing the wild and trying to keep their morality and sanity. The main characters were two boys named ‘Ralph’ and ‘Piggy’. They met first on the island and were described as the “Fair-haired boy” and “Fat kid”. Conflicts occur in the novel when reality starts to take over and hope of rescue disappears. People split up, betrayed and killed one another, and didn’t …show more content…

Evidence includes the guards position in the article “Stanford Prison Experiment”. The quote “Other than that, the guards were to run the prison as they saw fit”, tells us that there were no rules or restrictions for the guards to follow. It meant that the guards were free to do anything that they felt would maintain order. As I said before, people change depending on the situation, or in this case, position that they’re in. It was said that a lot of the guards became sadistic. Zimbardo, the conductor of the experiment that took place in the prison, believed that the experiment showed how people’s personalities change when given positions of authority. Although, he acknowledged that some guards did try to change the

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