As society has learned from the Holacaust and World War 1,as well as the Bosnian Genocide,all men have the capacity for evil given the right set of circumstances (Treub).These events in history leads us to this intresting question, is man inherently good or evil? This is a question that has puzzled people throughout humanity and whom could many not determine an actual answer to.Many base their opinion on personal or world wide events.Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about young British boys who become stuck on an inhabited island after plane crashing.At first the educated boys make regualtions and rules for the tribe which later turn into complete chaos.The novel shows boys who gradually transform from civilized human beings
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' 'Ballocks to the rules! We 're strong- we hunt! If there 's a beast, we 'll hunt it down! ' ' (Golding 83).Jack and his hunters begin to break and not give importance to many of the rules the boys they had agreed on.Many of the boys rebel on Ralph and join Jack 's tribe,who no longer care about resuce but are obssed with hunting.A person can become obssesed with some thing and being to not care about anything else but their selfish obsession.Since Jack 's tribe needs fire to cook meat,they decide to rob Piggy 's specs overnight to help them light fire.So they head to Ralph 's location, where they badly beat Ralph and the others while they are …show more content…
As I have noted, I believe that man is inherently evil becuase they do not care about comitting murder, use violence as a form of entertainment and are selfish.Commiting murder or physically hurting another person is a very horrible thing.The boys found nothing wrong with the deaths of Simon and Piggy,who were just inoccent boys that were trying to make things right.The murder presented in this novel shows the darkness of man 's heart.Humans are inherently evil because they use violence as a choice of entertainment,the boys in the novel decided they would much rather hunt than do what was really most important, doing what ever they can do to get rescued.Golding showed us that violence is a savage urge lying in within everybody.Which leads us to conclude that humans are also selfish people, that only care about themselves.Jack beleived he was superior to the other boys making him think he had the power to control them.He selfishly used the boys dread of the beast to strenghten his own authority.Golding was able to portray the theme that evil is an inborn trait of mankind (Treub).Throughout studying the human nature in the novel it leads the reader to conclude that a humans true evil with reveal when we least except it or think.We are shaped by the world around us and we adapt to the bad and good things in the world in such a way that it becomes our natural way of life.While all human beings have the ability to be altruistic, darkness lies within all of humanity,and when
' 'Ballocks to the rules! We 're strong- we hunt! If there 's a beast, we 'll hunt it down! ' ' (Golding 83).Jack and his hunters begin to break and not give importance to many of the rules the boys they had agreed on.Many of the boys rebel on Ralph and join Jack 's tribe,who no longer care about resuce but are obssed with hunting.A person can become obssesed with some thing and being to not care about anything else but their selfish obsession.Since Jack 's tribe needs fire to cook meat,they decide to rob Piggy 's specs overnight to help them light fire.So they head to Ralph 's location, where they badly beat Ralph and the others while they are …show more content…
As I have noted, I believe that man is inherently evil becuase they do not care about comitting murder, use violence as a form of entertainment and are selfish.Commiting murder or physically hurting another person is a very horrible thing.The boys found nothing wrong with the deaths of Simon and Piggy,who were just inoccent boys that were trying to make things right.The murder presented in this novel shows the darkness of man 's heart.Humans are inherently evil because they use violence as a choice of entertainment,the boys in the novel decided they would much rather hunt than do what was really most important, doing what ever they can do to get rescued.Golding showed us that violence is a savage urge lying in within everybody.Which leads us to conclude that humans are also selfish people, that only care about themselves.Jack beleived he was superior to the other boys making him think he had the power to control them.He selfishly used the boys dread of the beast to strenghten his own authority.Golding was able to portray the theme that evil is an inborn trait of mankind (Treub).Throughout studying the human nature in the novel it leads the reader to conclude that a humans true evil with reveal when we least except it or think.We are shaped by the world around us and we adapt to the bad and good things in the world in such a way that it becomes our natural way of life.While all human beings have the ability to be altruistic, darkness lies within all of humanity,and when