Violence In Lord Of The Flies Essay

According to Girard (1979), violence has tendency to hoard in one place which can lead to “fundamental truth about violence’ is that, ‘if left unappeased, violence will accumulate until it overflows its confines and floods the surrounding area.” With the lack of rule of law, or the presence of the super-ego, which balances both the id and the ego, ‘Man’ will naturally turn to a savage or the id will dominate over the superego. (Wilson, 2014). Rules prevents the domination of the id and suppresses man’s evilness within his heart. Therefore, if rules become non-existent, balance and harmony will cease and humans will now show their evil side that they had long restrained within themselves. William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, also …show more content…
Innocence appears to be the mere expression of a neutral and universal essence attached to childhood. Young children are usually regarded as innocent compared to adults because of their age and a lack of experience to the world. But exposure to certain things can disrupt their innocent behavior. Loss of innocence is constructed as a fall from essence, attended by feelings of loss and of brokenness (Duschinsky, 2013). Exposure certain kinds of poverty, civil war, corruption, and even pornography can unmasked the ignorant behaviors of children and shatter their childhood innocence. Even reaching the age of puberty can lead to loss of innocence because they now have knowledge of other sexual functions. These changes their views as well as their whole being and these may also be the reasons why they shamelessly resort to unlawful acts of murder, theft, harassment and human traffic