Idle Hands Make the Devil’s Work
“Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed”. In the novel “Lord of The Flies”, William Golding shows us that once removed from a sheltered and perfect environment and tossed into a more hostile environment, i.e a deserted island, we become savage with no willing alternative. At the center of mankind there is a whole new layer of destruction and the only thing that changes is our sense of consciousness of what's right and wrong. Once we take away our sense of morality and punishment all we have is savagery. We will explore the depths of civilization vs. savagery within the insights of your true self having a deeper meaning and having a unconscious feeling of barbarism.The humanize state of who you are now to when you take away the morality effect of right and wrong.This equates evil and finally the loss of hope and ever disturbed struggle/race for power and control.This concludes that the deep, dark and disturbing actions inside of you are only …show more content…
As Simon is depicted as Jesus, envisions the Lord of The Flies, who is the embodiment of the devil himself, saying, “I am a part of you”,(133) manifests the idea that even the holiest of beings has darkness resonating within. Evil is real, it is alive and it lives in every single one of us. The only true beast is yourself as shown when Simon states, ‘...maybe there is no beast...maybe it's only us”(50).Golding seems to imply that no matter what name you give to evil , be it sin, the devil, terrorism, or just sheer destruction, it is a trait that is inside mankind. This idea can be confirmed when Simon discovers the beast truly is a man in the form of a downed parachutist. When living in such a sheltered and safe life, that evil within you never has a chance to make itself known and now that you are placed in such a dire situations, your “demons” come out to
“Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed”. In the novel “Lord of The Flies”, William Golding shows us that once removed from a sheltered and perfect environment and tossed into a more hostile environment, i.e a deserted island, we become savage with no willing alternative. At the center of mankind there is a whole new layer of destruction and the only thing that changes is our sense of consciousness of what's right and wrong. Once we take away our sense of morality and punishment all we have is savagery. We will explore the depths of civilization vs. savagery within the insights of your true self having a deeper meaning and having a unconscious feeling of barbarism.The humanize state of who you are now to when you take away the morality effect of right and wrong.This equates evil and finally the loss of hope and ever disturbed struggle/race for power and control.This concludes that the deep, dark and disturbing actions inside of you are only …show more content…
As Simon is depicted as Jesus, envisions the Lord of The Flies, who is the embodiment of the devil himself, saying, “I am a part of you”,(133) manifests the idea that even the holiest of beings has darkness resonating within. Evil is real, it is alive and it lives in every single one of us. The only true beast is yourself as shown when Simon states, ‘...maybe there is no beast...maybe it's only us”(50).Golding seems to imply that no matter what name you give to evil , be it sin, the devil, terrorism, or just sheer destruction, it is a trait that is inside mankind. This idea can be confirmed when Simon discovers the beast truly is a man in the form of a downed parachutist. When living in such a sheltered and safe life, that evil within you never has a chance to make itself known and now that you are placed in such a dire situations, your “demons” come out to