What is human nature? In world war 2 people saw how destructive humans can be, and how a normal person can go from a civilized human being into savages. In the novel, the author uses the idea of human nature to show how easily society can fall apart, and how self-destructive humans. different parts of human nature can all lead to the destruction of society. Some of the aspects of human nature plugged into the book are; destruction, demoralization, hysteria and panic. These emotions all play a role into society's falling apart. The author includes character, conflict, and as well as symbolism to show that men are naturally evil In lord of the flies it show both good and evil through each of the characters. One of the characters that represent
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Every story has symbols even if you don't immediately recognize them. The object in the story symbolizes something more important than what it really is. An obvious symbol that best represents evil is the beast. Everyone is in a state of fear and don’t want to believe that there is a beast. As the talk about the beast continues, the boys blame each other for it. Jack said, "You Littluns started all this! With the fear talk. Beasts! Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. Only Ralph says your scream in the night. What does that mean but nightmares? Anyway, you don’t hunt or build or help--you useless lot of cry babies! That’s what. And as for the fear-- you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us." ( pg 75) This shows that when fear builds up, we as humans go to other people to take the blame. It gives a view of how much hatred and selfishness man is capable of holding. how the author uses a beast to symbolize evil is very fitting, the word "beast" itself expresses anything but good.With the use of character, conflict, as well as symbolism, the author of the lord of the flies william golding slowly leads up to a theme that man is born with evil, it is human nature to be corrupt it’s not society that makes us that
Every story has symbols even if you don't immediately recognize them. The object in the story symbolizes something more important than what it really is. An obvious symbol that best represents evil is the beast. Everyone is in a state of fear and don’t want to believe that there is a beast. As the talk about the beast continues, the boys blame each other for it. Jack said, "You Littluns started all this! With the fear talk. Beasts! Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened. Only Ralph says your scream in the night. What does that mean but nightmares? Anyway, you don’t hunt or build or help--you useless lot of cry babies! That’s what. And as for the fear-- you’ll have to put up with that like the rest of us." ( pg 75) This shows that when fear builds up, we as humans go to other people to take the blame. It gives a view of how much hatred and selfishness man is capable of holding. how the author uses a beast to symbolize evil is very fitting, the word "beast" itself expresses anything but good.With the use of character, conflict, as well as symbolism, the author of the lord of the flies william golding slowly leads up to a theme that man is born with evil, it is human nature to be corrupt it’s not society that makes us that