Lord Of The Flies Argumentative Essay

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding suggests ideas about human nature such as the grasp for power, manipulation, barbarism, anarchy, and destruction which are prevalent in today’s society. As the article 2011 Libyan Civil War Fast Facts by CNN describes the event as a power struggle, mob mentality, international desire for new leadership, and displays the internal challenges of a population, traits of human nature such as these are present the struggle between Jack and Ralph which effectively made two groups and created violent divide. Articles such as this one back up the Golding’s ideas that there is evil and a violent side to the world which as those grounded in the Libyan population.

An article by CNN gives a timeline to how the downfall of the former leader, Muammar Gaddafi after violence and an evident power struggle evolved from the civil war, backed by the United States. Foreign Affairs took a look behind to what caused the United States to get involved in a conflict finding that Obama said the following about the conflict, “We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi—a city nearly the size of Charlotte—could suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscience of the world,”. In fact according to CBS News which quoted several US Officials givings estimates of casualties ranging from 10,000 to as many as 30,000, just in the early stages of the civil war which is not including the fallout from the US-led airstrikes. According to Foreign Policy in Focus after the removal and subsequent

What ties these two events closely is the process and eventual change in the leadership of these populations being the Libyans and the Islanders. This can be displayed when Jack is tired of dealing with an ineffective, uncooperative, and unpopular leader, that is