Social Darwinism In Lord Of The Flies

Over the years scholars have misinterpreted the belief of Social Darwinism as a dramatic social change in history but Social Darwinism is more then that. We can take a look in why society today and how history has been in the past by understanding the concept of “survival of the fittest”. We have to understand the connection that is being made with racism and imperialism to better understand the concept of social darwinism. This connection is brought up with the belief that a certain group may be stronger than the other or that they're just simply better than anyone. Here is where the roots of social darwinism crept from. Although social darwinism has nothing in relation to the term of “Survival of the Fittest” because this was brought in …show more content…
We can come to the conclusion that as time went by the situations and problems the characters faced made them change in which they viewed things. Just as social darwinism changed throughout the time of the cold war to modern society we see the same changed in the story from the time Piggy met Ralph to where the boys found the officer. The authors main belief is that together as a group people will be motivated to accomplish their desired goals rather than individually. Therefore after these groups have achieved their goals then they will be ready to achieve their independent goals. When this happens there are two types of individuality, positive and negative. The positive side of this individuality involves cooperations with other people and the idea that everyone is equal and we will help each other accomplish these goals so we can all be successful. Therefore that means that the negative side involves not helping each other but most importantly competition. For example is someone is better then someone else at a specific thing and they don't help the other achieve the same level of success then that's evil. After we take a moment to closely look at this we can see that the the negative side of individualism is the same concept of Social Darwinism. The whole concept of Social Darwinism is considered evil and wrong. This author stands for the belief that Social Darwinism is actually made up of the pure evil in men. We have the capability to all be equal and survive but our self interests cme in the way of that. By taking advantage of our power we will only become more powerful simply because we are better than others at a certain thing because our nature consists of that. This has only caused more and