Who Is Jean-Jocules Naturally Evil In Lord Of The Flies

In a time, where fear propagated, a book called Lord of the Flies was written.It shows characters nearly for the start of their predictament, devolve into savagery. Now the question, that needs to be asked is, whether the barbaric acts in the end of the novel are the result of the environment or the fact that those on the Island are naturally wild and uncivilized. Jean-Jocules Rousseau, a man whose writings inspired modern philosophy, believed that man was naturally good. A man whose importance to this field in which this debate is framed cannot be dismissed. However, the author of the book itself, William Golding, believed that the human mind was naturally evil and had to be taught not to be. Rousseau's position can be interpreted as a noble, but an overly optimistic one. However, Jean-Jocules is correct in his position that the environment is the leading cause of violence and savagery and less because of the inherent evil that mankind allegedly is born with
Many of those on the opposition believe that Jack and his constituents were evil to begin with. What he did nearly from the onset is insist, he and his choir should be the hunters of the group, …show more content…
This statement is saying only a few are leaders, and that they push the others around not unlike Jack and Roger in the novel. Jack and Roger pushed their followers and those who followed reacted differently when confronted individually versus as a group.Their followers were not reacting to something they were born with, they were reacting to their environment in this