Before the boys arrive on the island is a beautiful tropical paradise untouched by civilization. When the boy's plane crashed a "long scar (was) smashed into the jungle" (p.1, Chapter 1) The island has been scared just like the cities that have been scared by atomic warfare. The harm to the island was caused by a man made object which shows that it is man who causes destruction. No matter where man goes he always brings destruction. The boulders that the boys push over also represent man's destructive nature and brute force. The boys have fun causing destruction to the island. They even pretend the bolder is "like a bomb"(p.25, chapter 1). It is evident that man's feral nature exists even in their fun and games. Another example of man's destructiveness is too look at the condition of the island when the boys first arrive and when they leave. In the beginning the island is described as a heavenly place full of life. In the end

Evil exists in all human beings. No one ever wants to admit that they are evil so they place the blame for all the evil on something else. In this case it was the beast. The dead parachuter was what the boys thought to be the beast. Simon was the only one who accepted the fact that the beast is really "only us" (p.96, chapter 5) but the other boys just laughed when Simon tried to express this thought on man's evil nature. The Lord of the Flies also represents the evil in everyone. He even refers to himself as the beast in his conversation with Simon, "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"(p.158, chapter 8) You cannot kill the beast because he is the evil that is everywhere in everyone. You cannot kill the devil himself. Simon now understands the true nature of the evil. After Simon finds out that what everyone thinks is the beast is actually just the parachuter he goes to try and tell the other boys. There he encounters the beast again but this time not in the pig but in the boys themselves. Without social order the boys have no way in controlling the evil inside them and Simon, mistaken for the beast, is killed. The parachuter then floats into away leaving only one beast left on the island, man.

Man is a savage beast. Thi

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