People's lives are shaped by being exposed to events and people around them, good and bad. These experiences have positive or negative effects on people, causing them to do things that are classified as “good” or “bad”. If someone wasn’t preexposed to anything considered as such, would they prove to be inherently good or evil? Renaissance philosophers and modern scientists believe that mankind’s first instinct is to be good. Lord of the Flies author, William Golding, thinks the opposite. In the book, he expresses his belief that problems in society are the result of defects in individual people. However, many scientific and psychological experiments have been conducted that prove humans are in fact born good. Although Golding believes people
