Lord of the Flies

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

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This is somewhat ironic in that the boys in the middle of a manhunt become rescued by an adult, because adults appear dignified, and capable. They have had their human nature's take over their logical thinking and have now become assassins. An example is when Simon is confronted by the lord of the flies. It comes to an extreme when they kill Simon. Yet the fact the that the ship that rescues them will be used to do the same evil which the boys were doing on the island shows us that we are not as dignified as some would like to think.

In the last section the boys are rescued by a ship that happens to be a cruiser. After the first pig is killed hunting becomes something the boys admire. ng Ralph, who represents civilization.

Golding's view of human nature is one, which is correct. The fact that almost all the boys have become loyal to Jack and are now engaged in a man hunt to kill Ralph lets the reader see what Golding's view of human nature is. Look at past years, wars like WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Korean War, and Star Wars, which probably would have caused us to kill our human race had it broken out into nuclear war. We are the predators who kill each other. Golding is simply pointing this out to his readers with a little twist in order to show how deteriorated our society has become. They continually, especially Jack, grow more fixed on killing.

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