Lord of the Flies by William Golding and “All There Is to Know about Adolph Eichmann” by Leonard Cohen have the same theme of “monsters exist, not within monsters, but within the soul of every human.” The two pieces of literature have the same theme because in Lord of the Flies, all of the kids believed there was a supernatural monster that was hunting them down, but the real threat was the leader of the savage tribe, Jack, who repeatedly had his people beat and sometimes kill other boys. “In the midst of the chaos, Simon steps forward and says, ‘Maybe it’s only us’” (Golding 88). This is stated by Simon, who never questioned the existence of a beast, but said that the beast only existed inside of the boys. This relates to the poem, which
