Evil In Lord Of The Flies Research Paper

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Golding's novel "The Lord of the Flies" reflects upon human society and shows how, if put the ideal situation, the evil held inside man can emerge from the depths in which it is contained and come to light in the most alarming and upsetting ways. The two major sets of systems in the novel are the ones in place during Ralph democratic rule, and the ones in place during Jacks dictatorial rule. In both cases the systems within either end in failure, or are distorted into a blatant form of evil. "Golding inveighs against those who think it is the political or other systems that create evil. Evil springs from the depth of man himself - it is the wickedness in human beings that creates evil systems or that changes what from the beginning is, or…show more content…
Ralph and Piggy set about building the fire, but realize by the end of it that most of the older children have gone, presumably to join Jack. During all of this, Simon is hidden in his nifty meditation spot watching Jack and Co. hunt a pig. in a scene described somewhat as a rape), cut off her head, and jam it onto a stick in the ground. Simon stares at the head, which he calls “the Lord of the Flies” (he’s hallucinating,) Simon passes out, gets a bloody nose, and wakes up covered in sweat, blood, . Despite all this, he goes up the mountain & ,discovers that the beast is in fact just a man. Then he vomits and staggers down the mountain. By now, Ralph and Piggy (both rather ravenous) are attending a big party that Jacki is throwing. Simon, still bloody, sweaty, and covered in puke, stumbles down into the center of the crazed boys, tries to tell them about the beast, but he is unrecognizable and the boys jab at him with their spears until he is dead. Again, the boys are portrayed as savage animals. Ralph and Piggy later convince themselves they didn’t take part in murdering

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