“The battle line of good and evil runs through the heart of every man” (Solzhenitsyn). In today’s society many people believe that children are influenced to do bad deeds by other kids or that the environment impacts their children’s behaviors. The world is full of corrupt ideas and destructive people so many parents try to raise their children with good morals and values so that when their children are on their own they can avoid taking the wrong path. However there are some people who believe that the human race, from birth, is born evil into this world. In Lord of the Flies, Golding argues that human nature, free from the restrictions of society, draws people away from reason toward savagery. Writer of the Lord of the flies William Golding,
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The symbolic beast in this case is telling Simon that all the boys on the island deep down have desire that in society they would keep hidden but here on the island alone they have the freedom to shed their civilization and be free of all restrictions, and as they shed their ties to humanity the concept of a metaphoric beast is introduced. No matter how much the boys try to deny the beast Golding has proved that the beast is an inedible force that resides in every human and is just part of human nature. Another way Golding decides to expose that man is inherently evil is through the characterization of Ralph. On the way to the mountain, the boys decide to go on a hunt in which Ralph takes part in; he strikes a boar in the snout and is fascinated by how good it felt. Ounce Ralph has hit the boar he “talk[s] on, excitedly” about how the “spear [got] stuck in [the boar] and idly chatters on about how he “wounded” the poor thing (Golding 128). The characterization Ralph here shows that he is slowly turning into more of a savage and actually enjoys it. He even “[feels] that hunting was good after all” the irony is that he has always looked down upon Jack and the hunters for always participating in time consuming hunting instead of focusing …show more content…
Author Cari Romm discusses a Halloween experiment done to young children who dressed up in Halloween masks and stole more candy then they were supposed to. Now readers may think that stealing a candy or two more then they are supposed to is something every child does but that’s the problem almost every child that was hiding behind a Halloween mask “stole…extra candy roughly three times as often” as those who did not wear a mask(Romm 1). Kids who also trick or treated with other kids “were more than twice as likely to steal as those who came alone” (Romm 1). As proven by the studies done the reader can conclude that when oneself is masked from society and is unidentifiable in a group that they will commit to proceed with their selfish desires such as stealing then when they are unmasked and are traveling alone. When these children hide behind the monstrous masks they wear they are encouraged to act like one also. Golding’s theme that man is inherently evil is also evident in the nonfiction article “United States is raising a nation of savages”, the article talks about how there are teenagers that are bored and when paired together kill for fun and entertainment. One of the stories that are mentioned is when two teenagers are “bored [so they] kill [a]
The symbolic beast in this case is telling Simon that all the boys on the island deep down have desire that in society they would keep hidden but here on the island alone they have the freedom to shed their civilization and be free of all restrictions, and as they shed their ties to humanity the concept of a metaphoric beast is introduced. No matter how much the boys try to deny the beast Golding has proved that the beast is an inedible force that resides in every human and is just part of human nature. Another way Golding decides to expose that man is inherently evil is through the characterization of Ralph. On the way to the mountain, the boys decide to go on a hunt in which Ralph takes part in; he strikes a boar in the snout and is fascinated by how good it felt. Ounce Ralph has hit the boar he “talk[s] on, excitedly” about how the “spear [got] stuck in [the boar] and idly chatters on about how he “wounded” the poor thing (Golding 128). The characterization Ralph here shows that he is slowly turning into more of a savage and actually enjoys it. He even “[feels] that hunting was good after all” the irony is that he has always looked down upon Jack and the hunters for always participating in time consuming hunting instead of focusing …show more content…
Author Cari Romm discusses a Halloween experiment done to young children who dressed up in Halloween masks and stole more candy then they were supposed to. Now readers may think that stealing a candy or two more then they are supposed to is something every child does but that’s the problem almost every child that was hiding behind a Halloween mask “stole…extra candy roughly three times as often” as those who did not wear a mask(Romm 1). Kids who also trick or treated with other kids “were more than twice as likely to steal as those who came alone” (Romm 1). As proven by the studies done the reader can conclude that when oneself is masked from society and is unidentifiable in a group that they will commit to proceed with their selfish desires such as stealing then when they are unmasked and are traveling alone. When these children hide behind the monstrous masks they wear they are encouraged to act like one also. Golding’s theme that man is inherently evil is also evident in the nonfiction article “United States is raising a nation of savages”, the article talks about how there are teenagers that are bored and when paired together kill for fun and entertainment. One of the stories that are mentioned is when two teenagers are “bored [so they] kill [a]