What is man's human nature? Is it order and government or is it chaos and anarchy? The general question is this is man good or bad? According to William Golding man's human nature is defective, corrupted, basically bad. In his book Lord Of The Flies, Golding clearly demonstrates what he believes society's human nature is.
             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 hunting Ralph, who represents civilization. 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. We are the predators who kill each other.
             In the last section the boys are rescued by a ship that happens to be a cruiser.
             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. 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. Golding is simply pointing this out to his readers with a little twist in order to show how deteriorated our society has become.
             Throughout Lord Of The Flies we see how when separated from a ruled society our human nature is to become killers. When the story begin
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