Humanity Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Lord of the Flies by William Golding addresses humanity’s weakness; humans can’t; control themselves when evil is controlling them. The novel explains that the humans are evil when they are born; everyone in the novel has a dark side, just like the moon at night, though their dark sides are hardly visible to others. When humankind is far away from civilization, society, and rules, the beast deep down will show its true color.The beast in the novel is a symbol of the inhuman actions that humankind does; we are a dangerous species. Golding reveals people’s innate evil summoned during intense stress and conflict in a society that’s far away from the rules as shown through the novel. Golding shows that the boys are innocent and civil when they crash on the island; they all act like well …show more content…
When they are not rescued though, they start geting desperate, rest of them decide to follow Jack to search the beast and hunt it down. However Piggy, Sam, Ralph and Eric stay behind. Ralph is starting to lose hope and wants to give up his power, but Simon tries to convince him to keep it. Ralph tries to rest, “Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters, no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall.” (76) He dreams about feeding sugar to ponies, which is a very innocent dream all children should have. When he wakes up, Sam and Eric, are discussing about the beast, which causes Ralph to panic. He just had a sweet dream, but now he is just stressed out by the beast. This shows reader his loss the loss of innocence. Even humankind tries not to kill the innocent inside us, but that innocence gets destroyed anyway, therefor will define how we act. Simon’s behavior changes