In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of young English boys are evacuated from their country due to a war. The plane is then shot down and causes a plane crash on a desert island. The boys are left alone, without adults, without supplies and with no one to come to save them. They are all alone and must found a new “society”. The boys must choose someone to govern them and that person ends up being Ralph, who had an internal struggle between right and wrong towards the end of the novel. The boys turn into savages, kill each other and show their evil within each of them. According to William Golding, man is intrinsically evil, evil is in each of us, but it is oppressed by society, and it comes out when there is nothing to hold it back, civilization is what keeps evil from coming out, or it is what triggers evil within man. Within the whole man is inherited evil that is hidden from the surrounding environment and the society around us. The Lord of the Flies reveals that without structure, man is an evil, savage beast. The young group of boys shows that humanity is inherently evil through aggressive control and power. As the boys are put on their chores, Jack begins to become more demanding and belligerent towards his group of choir boys. When Jack tells Ralph, “I will divide the chorus, my hunters will” (Golding 42). Jack tries to show his solidarity towards the choir boys and how they are becoming more and more wild. Jack then begins to show his need for control and power by breaking the rules and doing his own thing, for example he says, "Fuck the rules!" We are strong: we hunt! If there is a beast, we will hunt it! We will approach and beat, beat and b... middle of paper... the people are in the wild and have no civilization or government to keep their evil suppressed. At the end of the book, when the boys are rescued, Golding writes: “His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning rubble of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other kids also began to tremble and sob. And among them, with dirty body, matted hair and uncleaned nose, Ralph cried for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart and the fall into the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy ” (202) . In this quote Ralph is crying because now he has lost all his innocence that he had before he came to that horrible island, because of everything that happened on the island. He is also crying because he just lost his friend Piggy due to the boys' vicious acts and now he realizes how evil they all are.
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