Good And Evil In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

The word evil is find on the dictionary as wicked, sinful, bad, likely to cause trouble. On the other hand, good has a meaning of beneficial, honest, noble and pure. In society, evil and good mean different things to each person, what is holy for one person is damaging for another. Historical fact that establishes that humanity’s evilness is part of their nature as human being, people born with abomination. Experiments as the Milgram and the Stanford prison experiments show the wickedness of the society. Indeed the Lord of the Flies by William Golding brings to light the theme of evilness versus good. What makes this novel attractive is a group of boy, trying to survive on an island making effort to live with civilization to avoid the war in the group. As the time approaches the behavior and the real personality of each one of theme reveals itself. As in each one of the experiment there is a chief, in the novel, Jack is a leader that takes advantage of his authority to have control over the other boys. Above all, for some people in society evilness is learn from the people. In contrast, evidence attests that evilness triumphs over good.

The central character in Lord of the Flies are Jack, a boy that emphasizes acquiring food and hunting; Ralph who tries to live in civilization while they carry out the goal of rescuing; Piggy the idealist on the Island who eternally agrees with Ralph’s ideas and last is Simon, the symbol of purity and nature. In this arrangement of boys, Jack makes up himself the chief even though part of the boys do not agree with his ideas. At the onset of the novel, everything is going well but finish quickly when they loss the opportunity of rescue caused by Jack’s hunting obsession. Behind this event the re...

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...evil place on a good person. The result was that once a person has authority can make the most atrocities thing of the world without think of the consequences.Those three evidences show the reality about humans, not only adult people comprise in a malevolent situation, children are capable of became really dangerous. I wonder what would happen if the group of boy never get request? or what would happen if one of the students in the Milgram experiment died? And what if the Stanford prison experiment was not stopped? Some of the people simply born evil and others acquired evilness. Other people may think that all depends on the situation or depends on your morality.

Golding, W. (1954). Lord of the Flies.United States,Library of congress catalogue publishing group, Print.

Philip G. Zimbardo. (1999)Stanford Prison Experiment http://www.prisonexp.org