Nature Vs Nurture Lord Of The Flies Essay

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One of the biggest questions when it comes to morality and behavior is the debate of nature vs. nurture. This same question could be asked in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. To be a bit more specific, this question is proposed when it comes to the characters Jack and Roger. Throughout the story their moralities come into question and the most reasonable explanation for this is that the nature of their situations nurtured the evil that is later present. The following paragraphs will explain the role their situations played in their behaviors. In Lord of the Flies there are several moments where the island and the overall situation nurtured evil and insanity in the boys, but in one first ever moment of this happening this is more clearly seen, and in the article …show more content…

The moment that was being spoken of earlier was when the narrator said, “He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there will be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict” (Golding 31).This was right after Jack failed to kill the pig due to hesitation, and the humiliation he felt from his peers was his trigger. After that moment Jack never again hesitated to stab or kill, whether it was a pig or a person. After that trigger or start, the island just continued to nurture his insanity. The next example of behaviors being nurtured in Lord of the Flies isn’t actually something that happened on the island in the novel, but before they were stranded, this example comes from the war that is going on in the

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