Lord of the Flies
People always say that children are innocent and develop the evil as they grow up seeing the malice and spite in the world. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane gets shot down with a group of British boys who get stranded in an island when they are being taken out of England to another place for safety from WWII. They try to work together to be rescued but chaos in the island quickly develops. Human nature is essentially evil because of the natural changes that occurred in Ralph, Jack, and Roger. Ralph’s changes show that human nature is evil. Ralph represents a good leader throughout this novel but he shows that even as a good leader he has evil in him and turns savage. On page 113 Ralph says with excitement, “I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!” This quote shows that Ralph was excited and proud when he killed the boar. He never had thought he was capable of being a hunter like Jack. …show more content…
He always wants something to do with blood and likes to boss people around. Right from the start Jack makes himself leader for the choir boys and nominates himself as chief. (p.22). When he is made leader of the hunters and they find a pig he can’t kill it. “He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy.” (p.31). This quote shows that Jack will kill the next pig and shed its blood with no hesitation next time. On page 151 Jack says, “Do our dance! Come on! Dance!”. This is what Jack tells the boys in his tribe when there is a storm. Jack orders them to get in a circle and pretend that one of them is the pig which ends up being Simon in the end and the actually kill him. Jack is a bad leader and killing doesn’t bother him so when he gets a tribe he convinces his boys to kill. Roger who isn’t a leader at all proves that some people can just be evil without others to convince or follow
People always say that children are innocent and develop the evil as they grow up seeing the malice and spite in the world. In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane gets shot down with a group of British boys who get stranded in an island when they are being taken out of England to another place for safety from WWII. They try to work together to be rescued but chaos in the island quickly develops. Human nature is essentially evil because of the natural changes that occurred in Ralph, Jack, and Roger. Ralph’s changes show that human nature is evil. Ralph represents a good leader throughout this novel but he shows that even as a good leader he has evil in him and turns savage. On page 113 Ralph says with excitement, “I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!” This quote shows that Ralph was excited and proud when he killed the boar. He never had thought he was capable of being a hunter like Jack. …show more content…
He always wants something to do with blood and likes to boss people around. Right from the start Jack makes himself leader for the choir boys and nominates himself as chief. (p.22). When he is made leader of the hunters and they find a pig he can’t kill it. “He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy.” (p.31). This quote shows that Jack will kill the next pig and shed its blood with no hesitation next time. On page 151 Jack says, “Do our dance! Come on! Dance!”. This is what Jack tells the boys in his tribe when there is a storm. Jack orders them to get in a circle and pretend that one of them is the pig which ends up being Simon in the end and the actually kill him. Jack is a bad leader and killing doesn’t bother him so when he gets a tribe he convinces his boys to kill. Roger who isn’t a leader at all proves that some people can just be evil without others to convince or follow