Comparing Lord Of The Flies And The Second Coming

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Tina Dam Mr. Ha English 1H/ Per. 4 07 June 2016 Lord of the Flies and “The Second Coming” The shared tone of the texts from the readings, “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats and the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, show that evil can lie in the presence of anything deemed as innocent. The tone of the two texts give a sense of despairing to the reader as the boys become belligerent to fight and convert into savages. Likewise on the poem, “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats, the text directly states, “The ceremony of innocence is drowned” (Yeats 6). Both of these texts reveal how evilness can fester in an innocent being. The evilness cannot be stopped as the Lord of the Flies illustrates in the following excerpt: “At once

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