William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, proffers a great deal of thought-provoking ideas that answer the same question given to the readers in chapter 5, “what is mankind’s essential illness?”. In the current society we live in, most of us expect that there is ostensibly only one true answer to this question; however, Golding suggests that there is more than one answer, shown by how the question serves as the basis for the plot as an allegory. Golding invites us to analyze his story looking through different lenses to search for those answers, political, psychological, and religion, with symbolic characters. These three answers, though not the only ones, give us a general idea of what mankind’s flaw truly is, but it does not favor one or
