The Lucifer Effect In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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THE LUCIFER EFFECT IN LIFE AND LORD OF THE FLIES Sometimes people especially naïve teenagers find themselves under the influence of their pears or the greater crowd or even the more predominant individual. And subsequently one finds themselves in some monumental mayhem. This is known as the Lucifer Effects. The Lucifer Effect is where someone crosses the line of good and evil, because of the manipulation of authority or the crowd flow, to do something unethical. Throughout the cataclysmic course of history several clever and cunning minds have acknowledged and perceived this effect like Philip Zimbardo and William Golding. William Golding even wrote a perceptive novel known as Lord of The Flies that illustrated and captured how the Lucifer …show more content…

But as usual people will dispute this statement and suggest that for instance the theme of Lord of the Flies is how the Loss of Innocence ravages the boys and the island inside out. But this is a common misconception and the Loss of Innocence is one of the multitude of effects from the Lucifer effect. One who justifies that loss of innocence is the nucleus and theme of Lord of the flies one may use an event in the novel like... when the boys encounter Simon on the shore and kill him to justify that when they killed Piggy they lost their Innocence and after that they spiraled out of control. But one must be prudent and realize that when Jack started to do the chant the boys where enticed when he pointed at Simon and demanded to kill him and that he was a beast the boys heedlessly carried out what they were told to do making them compliant and amenable to the authority of evil and displayers off how of how it works and how it will plague their lives. When one methodically approaches this ,one will come to terms with the fact that the Lucifer effect is what portrays and molds all other thematic possibilities of Lord of the flies making the Lucifer effect and traits of morality the ultimate theme in the

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