What is man's human nature? Is it order and government or is it chaos and anarchy? The general question is this is man good or bad? According to William Golding man's human nature is defective, corrupted, basically bad. In his book Lord Of The Flies, Golding clearly demonstrates what he believes society's human nature is.
Lord Of The Flies may seem like a story about some kids who happened to be wrecked on an island but Golding wrote it to mean much more. Golding sets up the perfect situation to test what man's human nature really is. And through the use of many examples he clearly shows the reader what he feels our human nature is.
In the movie "Species", after a half human, half alien being is killed, a women says "I wonder which half was the predatory half." According to Golding it would be our half. For instance in his book Lord Of The Flies the last section clearly shows this. Jack, who represents anarchy, and most of the other boys on the island, is hunti
Throughout Lord Of The Flies we see how when separated from a ruled society our human nature is to become killers. When the story begins Ralph and a few other realize how important it is to keep rules and order. However as time goes on, we see how the beast of our human nature takes over and we become savages. An example is when Simon is confronted by the lord of the flies. It says to him how foolish he was to think that the beast could be killed or stopped. Here Golding is showing us that even though we try to live by rules the beast of our human nature will inevitable come to surface as it does with the boys. Another example is in the way the boys become more and more concerned with hunting than with creating huts or keeping the fire going. After the first pig is killed hunting becomes something the boys admire. They continually, especially Jack, grow more fixed on killing. It comes to an extreme when they kill Simon. But the boys show virtually no remorse for their fallen chum. They have had their human nature'
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