What is one nature shared by all human beings from the beginning of mankind to the civilized present? The answer, inherent evil, is revealed in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The author demonstrated that although evil exists within everyone, it could be suppressed by self-control, laws and orders of an educated society. Through Ralph and Jack, two characters that represented two different beliefs, Golding showed the readers that the surfacing of the evilness could result in an ultimate destruction.
             Ralph, the protagonist who represented order and organization in the novel, showed the potential of humans in regarding to the restraining of the evil nature. Upon the arrival of the island, Ralph told the group of boys that "... we ought to have a chief to decide things" (Golding, 1954, 22) and that "... we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire"( Golding, 1954, 38). Ralph understood the purpose of rules in a civilized society and the importance of the fire by the means of survival. He was willing to follow the rules and keep a fire in order to maintain control of the island and have a better chance of getting rescued. Ralph would "... like to put on war-paint and be a savage" (Golding, 1954, 142) because of the evilness within him; yet he suppressed it for he realized "... the smoke is more important than the pig..." (Golding, 1954, 81). As the disciplined chief of the island, Ralph knew that making and following rules were more important than killing and hunting even when the others were beginning to put their priorities elsewhere.
             As the days passed by on the island, Ralph started to lose the common sense of a civilized society by letting his inherent evil taking control. During the celebration of Ralph's first hunting, Robert and the rest of the hunters were ritually playing the scenes of the killing of the pig. Like the rest of the boys, "Ralph too wa...