Nature Vs. Nurture In Lord Of The Flies

Could it be, that our personality lay more in the power of situation and less in the power of biological factors? The boys’ savage and immoral behavior, shown at the end of the novel, “Lord of the Flies” should be condemned on both the environmental situation they lived through and biological factors. This novel is based on the topic of nature versus nurture and although I agree that they both had an impact on the boys ' behavior, a more rational appeal would be that the power of the situation overruled the power of biological factors. The boys were very conservative in the beginning but the longer they stayed stranded the more selfish a majority of them became.Golding developed his first claim by first comparing the common attitudes expressed between the boys, then narrated how they had different perspectives for survivnig on the island, and finally illustrates the importance of guidance in order to maintain a properly functioned society The novel, “Lord of the Flies” is about a group of boys between the ages of

Jack, Roger, Maurice, and a the choir boys made up the savages. On the other hand, Jack paid a significant amount of his attention into the nature side; he spent a vast majority of his time on the island hunting and getting used to their new lifestyle. I, personally, did not understand why his group didn 't just break up into two so that the signal fire could be watched and their need to hunt was met as well. They could have killed two birds with one stone and remained whole with Ralph 's group. Instead, he used Ralph 's ideas to fulfill his interests and went against his theory. He played their conflict of being stranded on an island with no adults as, survival of the fittest, but of course in tribes and not individually. Jack knew it was important to be rescued but he did not want to live off of fruit the whole time he was there when he knew there was meat they were able to