Violence In The Toys Of Peace By William Golding

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People say some love marriages don’t last that long because after some time love fades away and they there are fights, trouble in telling truth to each other, problems in everything they do and in the end divorce happen. This relationship connects throughout William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Group of British boys who were set on the island during WWII. The boys change their behavior over time which gets similiar to the love relationship.The behavior of the boys changes into violence. In result, violence comes up to be the nature of mankind. In the same light, H. H. Munro “The Toys of Peace”. There are these two boys Eric and Bertie who gets new toys that resembles as peace toys. The boys used the peace toys play a crazy fighting game. the …show more content…
According, to Jack’s savage thinking in Lord of The Flies by setting the whole island on fire, just to kill Ralph. Jack and his Hunters were hunting for Ralph while he , “...was running beneath trees, with the grumble of the forest explained. They had smoked him out and set the island on fire”(Golding 197). Jack and Hunters were hunting down Ralph and can do possibly anything to kill him. Which leads them to have war among themselves. The island got the british boys to kill, hunt, destroying thing and have unnatural behavior against mankind. Lastly, there is Eric and Bertie in “The Toys of Peace” using the peace toys to have a war. After talking to Eleanor, he goes back to boy’s room and he,”...observed that the municipal dustbin had been pierced with holes to accommodate the muzzle of imaginary cannon”(Munro 5). The boys Bertie and Eric got new toys. They started playing with toys but, before that they gave the toys a new look like making a hole in the municipal dustbin so it can be use as cannon. The boys used the peace toys to play war game. The actual war is between the peace toys and the boys. The peace toys were suppose to get them learn to not to fight but, instead the boys destroyed the toys and played a game that they felt like. Both, group of boys and two boys were put in a different situation. The island boys started with civilize order but day by day they became more violent to each other which is unnatural to mankind. The boys Bertie and Eric were using the peace toys to play a war game and also it was showing the violence that was happening to the toys. Both, group of boys and two boys were doing this without adult around which made them naturally gravitated towards violence and that reveals the true nature to mankind. In short, Jack, hunters and two boys were behaving violently to Ralph, the Island and the peace toys and that my friend is the true nature of

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