The term evil can be defined as an immoral part of someone or a force in nature that gives rise to wickedness and sin. Both William Golding and Louis Stevenson explored the theme of evil in their books. They used the idea of evilness inside human nature, which was the same, but their own thoughts about basics of evilness was totally different. In this essay, I will look how evil is represented in both these novels through setting, characters and plot. Setting is the locale or period, which the actions of novels take place. Both J & H and LOTF have put their typical place and time that represents their own thoughts of evilness and theories about human nature.
William Golding exposed his themes about his believed man and the human nature …show more content…
Both had two opposite sides; good and evil that contrasted each other, which showed the characteristics of duality. However, this same nature system represented the human nature differently. As the island’s duality nature started by the ‘scar’ from plane crash, this means the evilness was made from the external force that led island to have a characteristic of duality of human nature. For J & H, their evilness was described from the start, without any factors from external world that affected evilness, which showed evilness was already existed naturally with the goodness. These difference shows there are clear similarities and differences between Golding and Stevenson, by looking at their …show more content…
However, there was a sense of principled proprietary and civilized acts in his human nature at the first time. He was a leader of the choirboys that had strict rules, posture and attitude. However, Ralph founds out a hidden evilness and savagery, covered by civilization when he first saw Jack. He described Jack as ‘tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled and ugly without silliness’ The phrase ‘red beneath the black cap’ shows Jack’s human nature system; the cap, which is a part of uniform that represents civilized society restricts red, a devilish blood-like colour, which represents the evilness that eager violence and savagery. Later on this position gets inversely changed; the boy with red hair stomps his hat and awakens the evilness inside him. Also his ‘crumpled, freckled and ugly’ face shows his savagery personality. This gives us a negative and unpleasant
William Golding exposed his themes about his believed man and the human nature …show more content…
Both had two opposite sides; good and evil that contrasted each other, which showed the characteristics of duality. However, this same nature system represented the human nature differently. As the island’s duality nature started by the ‘scar’ from plane crash, this means the evilness was made from the external force that led island to have a characteristic of duality of human nature. For J & H, their evilness was described from the start, without any factors from external world that affected evilness, which showed evilness was already existed naturally with the goodness. These difference shows there are clear similarities and differences between Golding and Stevenson, by looking at their …show more content…
However, there was a sense of principled proprietary and civilized acts in his human nature at the first time. He was a leader of the choirboys that had strict rules, posture and attitude. However, Ralph founds out a hidden evilness and savagery, covered by civilization when he first saw Jack. He described Jack as ‘tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled and ugly without silliness’ The phrase ‘red beneath the black cap’ shows Jack’s human nature system; the cap, which is a part of uniform that represents civilized society restricts red, a devilish blood-like colour, which represents the evilness that eager violence and savagery. Later on this position gets inversely changed; the boy with red hair stomps his hat and awakens the evilness inside him. Also his ‘crumpled, freckled and ugly’ face shows his savagery personality. This gives us a negative and unpleasant