Lord of the Flies: Theme Essay

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Lord of the Flies: Good and Evil Are we as humans born evil?? Do we tend to be shaped into person we are not overtime?? Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is about a copious amount of British boys that are stranded in an island because of a plane crash and, have forgotten all their morals as a result commit unconscious acts against each other. Golding shows that the lack of morals and discipline consequently he demonstrates how a certain environment can affect your person. The author also demonstrates the fact that they only have each other as support; yet, they employ these treacherous acts all because of the diabolical forces that the island has pressed into their souls. Golding utilizes many characteristics to symbolize how effectively the human nature can be manipulated as well as the harshness of humanity thanks to lack of morals and discipline. Survival, power, evil, innocence, fear, as well as hope can be portrayed in Lord of the Flies with the characterization and acts by Piggy, Simon, Ralph, and Jack. Lord of the Flies has adapted a perception that ill-natured power humanity, as Golding depicts in his novel. Actions can be made not always with the intentions that we think actions can be made with the intention of power, greed of power. Jack thought that because he brought meat to everyone he was powerful enough to put others down. “Jack turns to the hunters. ‘He’s not a hunter. He’d never have gotten us meat. He isn’t a perfect and we don’t know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk-‘”(126). Jack shows this with his obsession of hunting he did it not only because they needed meat but because one day he would use this in his favor to humiliate others and make him look like the powerful one. By utilizing conflict and symbol as a literary device to show how he was better than Ralph how he
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