Beast Within Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Beast Within “Within all humans, there is the seed of both good and evil”, but it is claimed that one sprouts and the other dies. The idea that man is inherently good or evil is a universal debate. To discover the true primitive nature of man, William Golding, author of, Lord of the Flies, interprets that humans are inherently evil and have immoral intentions. Through the use of children as the manifestation of human’s repulsive nature, the transform of the main characters, and the use of symbols to depict the man’s evil nature. Throughout the story, Golding exhibits his opinion on the true inherent nature of man, that humans have evil intentions and morals, But Golding’s statement is incorrect. There is no true inherent nature of man and …show more content…
One major display of Golding’s viewpoints is the fact that the plot is revolved around children. In the beginning of the the novel Ralph and Piggy meet up on the island Ralph then assumes that “there are no grownups on the island”(Golding 8). Goldings uses this concept to display an environment where a group of civilized English boys would do in a situation where they have to act for themselves, a position where there are no adults. He wants his readers to see a society the group of boys will create, modeling after the work made from adults. Golding’s purpose was to establish that truly malicious actions can arise even from childhood and adolescence. The author brings this concept up once more in the novel, when a naval officer arrives on the beach. After sighting Jack and his tribe setting the island on fire in an attempt to kill Ralph, he analyzes the boys appearance and questions if they were any adults on the island. This makes Ralph recollect the boys’ vicious actions towards one another, Ralph then weeps for the “end of innocence” and the “darkness of man’s heart” (Golding 202). Golding uses this to emphasis his point on the truly