Loss Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies

As said about nurturing young adolescents, “You cannot create a genius, all you can do is nurture one” - Ninette de Valois. We can only be nurtured into so many things, the rest is the natural instinct of nature. The novels To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, and Lord of The Flies by William Golding all show characters who lose their Innocence. Jem loses his innocence after the Tom Robinson trial. Jack loses his innocence when he goes from killing pigs for survival to killing pigs for his own good. Macbeth loses his innocence when he goes from killing people for protection to killing people for his own good. Macbeth and Jack have a bad loss of innocence because it turns them into savages along the way. Jem had a good way of losing his innocence. He gained something good from losing his innocence, he gained the feeling of empathy. He gained the feeling of putting himself in others shoes. As we grow up we are being nurtured into doing things that some people might consider right or even wrong.

In the novel of To Kill Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, and Macbeth the characters are being nurture in some way which leads them into losing their innocence. Scout and Jem are very inquisitive about their neighbor Boo Radley. Scout and Jem witness their father Atticus defend a African American named Tom Robinson who is being accused by Bob Ewell that he has raped his daughter Mayella Ewell. In Macbeth,Macbeth has to decide from killing the king or continue being loyal to him. He chooses to take these action because of the prophecies he has heard from the three witches. Lady Macbeth then manipulates him into killing King Duncan. Macbeth goes from killing to protect himself and his kingdom to killing for his own pleasure. In Lord of The Flies, the kids land on a island and find themselves by themselves. They choose a leader which is named to be Ralph. Along the way Jack is furious with the choice so he decided to make his own group which suddenly turn into savages. Relating to Macbeth, Jack and his group killed to kill their hunger, but along the way kill for fun and such.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem loses his innocence after the trail of Tom Robinson.

He gains a new perspective of things, he gains empathy as he loses his innocence. Scout is talking to Jem about how there is only one type of people, but Jem bares to disagree, “The thing is, our kind of folks don’t like the Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folk’... ‘Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folk.’ …’That’s what I thought too’ he said at last, ‘ when I was your age.’” (258). Scout is explaining to Jem that there is only one type of people or Folks. The hierarchy starts with rich white people, poor white people, white trash, and lastly colored people. Jem saying that he thought that there was only one type of people and that people were treated equally. So he thought, explaining that he once thought racism did not exist. Until being exposed to true

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Jem is at the trial and realized true racism and true inequality. That in the city of Maycomb you can only be one type of person to fit in, that is white, “‘ How could they do it, how could they?’ ‘ I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it -seems that only children weep’” (213). Jem has finally reached his point of growing up, he is now losing his innocence that he once had. By being exposed to racism in the trial, when Tom Robinson was wrongly convicted. Jem is crying into tears when he is talking to Atticus about the trial wrongly convicting Tom. Atticus explaining to him that racism will alway be around no matter where someone is not who it is. Atticus also say that children only seem to weep, saying that children can see what's right and what’s wrong. They are the only ones who truly see the good and bad in people. They truly weep and cry when they know something is wrong. Racism always get to good people who know the good and bad. Scout attempts to bring up the trial but Jem quickly shuts her topic down. Talking about racism makes him irritated and angry. Showing that Jem is seeing the racism through everyone in Maycomb, losing his innocence, “ Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad and’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home said Scout ... Jem was suddenly furious… “I never wanna hear about that courthouse again.” (283). Scout is talking about Mrs.Gates hating on Hitler so much but she and white people are similar to him and his ways. White people are treating colored folks the way, Hitler treated Jews. You can see Maycomb as Germany and colored people as the Jews. Jem answers back that he does not want to hear about the courthouse ever again. He is bothered by that topic and also racism. You can see him growing up from not even being close to discovering racism to knowing what racism is and being bothered by the upbringing of it or the topic. He put the topic on hold to later open it back up and discover the true thoughts he has about racism and inequality. By this time has has officially lost his innocence. Jem has lost his innocence and is slowly growing up. Grown enough to understand the inequality and racism in his town. Believing that each person should be equal and not defined by theirs skin color. He knows what right from wrong is, in his mind segregation and inequality does not exist. Soon growing up to be a man, forgive people, and sadly loss his innocence he was once had when he was a little boy.
In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, Jack is nurtured into being this savage on the island. That it is the only way to survive on the island. Jack loses his innocence when he he kills the first pig, therefore turning his direction into becoming a savage. Jack and the boys come up with a new chant like always, “ Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in “ Jack is proving his loss of innocence because it shows that they have greatly enjoyed taking the lives of pigs before jack used to kill pigs to stay alive on the land. Now Jack kills pigs for his own good pleasure. While they were dancing around the fire they even made a kid dance around the fire acting like a pig and torturing him like a pig. They wilfully cut its throat and spilled its blood, they then even celebrated to the killing of the pig. Jack is from a civilized society where public slaughtering of animals has now gone behind them and is a thing of the past. In the mind of Jack killing has now become a good thing in his life. Jack loses his innocence rarely quickly than most of the people on the island, “ Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife….. The spear moved forward inch by inch….. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands….. [Jack] giggled and then flicked them while the boys laughed. “( 155). Jack has killed the sow with no act of terror. He felt the need to get on the top of the pig and create such vicious acts to it. When he first approached the pig in the begging of the novel, he hesitated to kill the pig. Now he didn't even hesitated he flung himself to the pig and just physically attacked it, stab by stab. Jack then tops all of this of by flicking his fellow peers with the pigs blood on to them and alos flicking them physically. Jack is acting as if what he has done is normal, murdering animals in plain site. Jack has now been accustomed to this rather new lifestyle and seems to be enjoying it. This shows the loss if innocence of Jack, he is no longer the innocent choir boy boy he was in the beginning of the story. He is starting to do uninnocent things at his age which proves that he is losing the innocents.
Macbeth is being nurtured to be a murder by the three witches and Lady Macbeth. It was not his natural instinct to kill the King, when he starts to think about it he starts to lose the innoce left in him. Macbeth runs into some prophecy, “ This supernatural meeting can’t be bad, only it can't be good either. If its bad why has it given me promise of success….. Whose horrid image makes my hair stand on end…… my thought, whose murder is still only a fantastic idea, so shakes my manhood, that functioning like a man is smothered in unfounded allegations; and nothing is only what is not” Macbeth has now met with the three witches who all have prophecies for Macbeth. That he is going to be king one day. He believes that it will go bad and wrong for him if he will to pursuit the killing of King Duncan. He is debating to himself whether he should kill the king and take his throne or continue to be a loyal human being to him.the thought of killing the king is making his heart pound against his ribs. It rattles his manhood which soon fails him. Macbeth admits that he is scared to go along with this idea, but then emphasizes that murder is a great idea. With this thought it sends a shock through his body and gets goosebumps. He dealing with the idea of killing Duncan, therefore showing the loss of innocence that Macbeth had little of since he now a grown man. Macbeth went from being this loyal kingsmen to being this unloyal kingsmen with thoughts of killing his own King.