Why Is Lord Of The Flies Bad

“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.

“Everybody has good and evil within them. All we're trying to say is that people are not all good or all bad. People are more complicated than you think, and one has to be more knowledgeable about the complexities.” This quotation from Stephen Schwartz establishes that even the best of people can be bitter by their own nature. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding removes the restraints of society to prove that it is human nature to live primitively and that evil lies within all of us. The sanctions of society begin to deteriorate due to the loss of communication, Jack’s obsession with hunting, and the inhumane nature of Jack and his “tribe”.

He is the main character of the book. He is 15 years old and he is under a curse. The curse began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Because of his curse, unfortunately he has been sent to Camp Green Lake, it is a detention centre where the boys spend all day by digging holes, exactly 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. In that camp he has met a lot of friends. They are X-Ray, Armpit, Squid, Magnet, Zigzag and especially Zero as his best

In Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Golding claims that no matter how civilized or innocent all human beings are, the surrounding environment can change how people interact with each other and turn them from civilized beings into savages. He uses Jack to show that when human nature does not have any restraints, it will slowly evolve into savagery. Jack at first is a respectful, civilized person that is willing to communicate and cooperate with Ralph, but when confronting with the act of killing a pig makes him lose all sense of shame and conscience, he starts acting evil and wanting to hunt Ralph. By the end of the novel, Golding ultimately shows that everyone is capable of being evil and it is only society’s rules that keep most individuals from acting out evil.

Humans savagely turn against each other when they feel it would better them. One could say that there is no hope for humankind and that evil is an inborn trait of people, and in the novel, these two things go hand in hand together. In the Lord of the Flies, it portrays these ideas very well because it shows and explains how British school boys turn to savages because of the island.The boys’ shift to savagery was not gradual and this change in tone allowed many to come to a realization.

“’Which is better – to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better – to have rules and agree or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?’” (180) In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives the reader a look into a society made up of a group of young British boys, all raised in a sophisticated and civil manner, who crash landed on a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. While fighting to survive on the island, most of the boys gave in to the Beast or their savage side that is inside them. Others, like Ralph, find themselves in a battle with their own mind and the rest of the boys. Without rules and order, the boys quickly change

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding questions individuals whether humans are naturally good or evil. Throughout the novel, there are certain events and people that show humans are good. Not only is it shown in books but in real life too. Martin Luther King Jr. is a great example of this because what he did changed millions of lives and not in a bad way. As of the book, there are two characters that support the idea of humans being good. One of them is Simon and the other is Samneric. These two characters in Lord of the Flies help shape the answer of this question because the island never changed them. Humans have the choice of whether they want to turn evil or remain good. As seen by Simon and Samneric in Lord of the Flies by William

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding demonstrates the idea that our world today is still full of corrupt people that break our world apart from the good. The article, “Iowa Police Take Suspect in ‘Ambush-Style’ Killings of Two Officers into Custody” explains to us how evil our world still is to this day, with a man killing two police officers because they wouldn’t let him make fun of a race that doesn’t deserve to be made fun of. Just like Jack does to Piggy and Ralph when Jack calls Piggy a “Fatty” and he tells everyone that Ralph isn’t fit to be chief. Articles like this prove that when Golding wrote his novel he was thinking about how evil and how dangerous people truly are when put in certain situations that provoke one's actions.

    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

Merriam-Webster defines fault as a problem that prevents something from being perfect(merriam-webster.com). Dogs, political systems, schools, whatever it is, has at least one issue. Human nature however, has more flaws than anyone can count since a new one is born every second. A few defects in me, humankind, and Lord of the Flies are influence, doubt, and unprioritized thinking, which all lead us into a world where nothing can live without chaos or correlation.

Statement of intent: I am going to write a persuasive essay about how humans are born evil and are conditioned by society to act civilised, using Lord of the Flies and Goldings idea that humans are inherently evil, as well as current and historical events to expand on these ideas. “The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing the world that there is only one of him”- David Wong. The critically acclaimed novel Lord of the Flies written by Nobel Prize winning author William Golding explores the idea that humans are inherently evil, among other ideas such as the loss of innocence, civilisation versus savagery and much more. Golding portrayed the idea that humans are inherently evil through the masterful use of symbols and motifs.

Golding´s book The Lord of the Flies has many different background meanings to it. Two themes that some critics think of are that people are born with evil already in them and that there is no hope for humanity. These themes are shown throughout the book in what the characters say and do. In this book there are many conflicts where the boys bully each other in an inhumane way, which shows how evil they really are. Also the boys lose hope for being rescued and start to go back to the more primitive ways of mankind. Golding definitely comes across in his work as some who may think that there is no hope for mankind and that all people are born with evil in them.

‘Lord of the Flies’ is based almost entirely on Golding’s view that evil is an inherent force in every man, “man produces evil as a bee produces honey”. Golding acquired this belief while he was a soldier in the Second World War. From that point on, he became extremely pessimistic about human nature, calling it “the disease of being human”. This belief is shown very clearly, as he puts ‘innocent’ children on a deserted island, free of all corruption; free of an external threat, therefore with no need of an army; abundant in food and supplies, therefore with no need to steal. Therefore, what evil was left could only come from the

Humans are horrible people creatures that function in their own strange way which leads to problems being made. In Lord of The Flies this is shown when they are “raping” the pig to show dominance. Then there is the time when the smarts of the group named Piggy even doubted that the symbol of power was going to work against these creatures. Not only that but people in history have also committed crimes like that of these children or even worse like Adolph Hitler who have a horrible personality and make decisions that cause disasters. In conclusion, Humans are people who can do extraordinary yet most are the opposite of that potential and end up destroying the world one by

Human nature is evil because in the "Lord of the Flies" everything was turned inside down .They treated piggy like he wasn't there .Jack and Rodger was plain jerks in the story because they killed piggy by throwing a big rock at him which knocked him over the Cliff and he fell 1,000 feet and it killed him .Human nature is also evil in the "Lord