Evil Side Of Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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This study investigates the evil side of human nature. William Golding’s world famous novel “Lord of the Flies”, discusses the loss of innocence of a group of young schoolboys, and the nature of evil that lies within all the humanity. Is evil a part of the human nature, or is it something developed within the human mentality, as a consequence of improper upbringing by individuals, or maybe the society’s boundaries for human expression and personal development. No human is supposedly born evil, but what if we’re wrong about that? This study analyses the social psychological theories and experiments made by some acknowledged psychologists of this field, Stanley Milgram, Muzafer Sherif and Solomon Asch, to understand which mechanisms within the

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