Over centuries, humans have butchered their own kind and destroyed the environment around them. William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” focuses on the true nature of the human kind: evil. The evil of the human nature has been disguised and covered up by the civilization that humans live in.
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the island paradise where the boys land without adult supervision makes them drop the camouflage of civilization and devolve to the stage of their animal instincts thus showing the natural evil of the human nature.
PAR 1. For a long time, humans have been living under rules that have restricted them from showing the true nature of human kind. Civilization helped them become stable individuals and act according to their moral rules and the law, but isolation from …show more content…
” The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.” (Pg 45). At this point in the story, the boys have just found themselves on the island, and their moral rules, set by the civilization holds them back from slaughtering that pig, however later, the “hunters” get into hunting and are comfortable with killing. “All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy… "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!" “(pg 74-76). We see that isolation does not only make them go back to their natural evil instinct of murder, but that the process also gives them a thrill. To see the blood of the pig drives them into an uncontrollable frenzy that only scares
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the island paradise where the boys land without adult supervision makes them drop the camouflage of civilization and devolve to the stage of their animal instincts thus showing the natural evil of the human nature.
PAR 1. For a long time, humans have been living under rules that have restricted them from showing the true nature of human kind. Civilization helped them become stable individuals and act according to their moral rules and the law, but isolation from …show more content…
” The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.” (Pg 45). At this point in the story, the boys have just found themselves on the island, and their moral rules, set by the civilization holds them back from slaughtering that pig, however later, the “hunters” get into hunting and are comfortable with killing. “All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy… "Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!" “(pg 74-76). We see that isolation does not only make them go back to their natural evil instinct of murder, but that the process also gives them a thrill. To see the blood of the pig drives them into an uncontrollable frenzy that only scares