Marxism In Lord Of The Flies

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The face of evil is the single greatest obstacle in the modern society. This is due to the insurmountable implementations of evil in the past.This however changed by the implementation of laws and other standards that decreased the room for evil to exist. This however is apparent in history because of the creation of World War 2. This creation of this war was fueled by the impact of pure evil existent in society leaders. This impact of World War 2 created William Golding to write the Lord of the Flies. In Williams Golding’s fiction novel, The Lord of the Flies he describes a microsim of a group of innocent boys that reprsents society. His book then takes a swing that reveales the boys innernature and the dadrkness that was hidden in them. The boys …show more content…

This has lead to critics beleiving that Golding’s main themes is that evil is an inborn trait of mankind and it that esxists in each human.First it is absoluelty imperative to look at why these critics belive this and then to how it represetended in this book. One prominient reason, on why critics beleive that Golding’s main theme is that eveil is inborn in mankind is because of the rise of chaos and savagery between the boys.This is an importonat cncoept becasue the boys arrive on the isand cvilized and in order but as time passes on the island they turn into animals, This is seen becasue the slip toward svagery shows that evilness clearly exitent in every human being. The savagery of each indivual ulimtalry starts with Jack. Jack begins this book by claiming the boys are not savages but becomes the first to turn to chaos.”Next time there will be no mercy” (31). This quote desrcibes his thought and language process that is running though his head after he has failed to kill the pig that was in his hands. He vows then to show no mercy and next time drive the knife into the pig. This starts off the savergy because Jack seems to lack the sense of order

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