What Is The Nature Of Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies has an important place in literature as it makes us face with the simple truth of human nature which is the evil inside him. Different from other adventure novels like Robinson Crusoe or The Treasure Island, Lord of the Flies presents a rather dark picture as to what human beings are capable of doing when environment and conditions compel them to do so. Written in the outcome of The Second World War, Lord of the Flies reflects Golding’s firsthand experience of war as he mentions in his essay Fable:
“Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill, and that therefore you could remove all social ills by are organizations of society. It is possible that today I believe something …show more content…

But the short analysis will help us that the novel tells something more about it. As Golding was a school teacher and so he knew very well the child psychology. The bleak experience of Second World War and his knowledge of child psychology help him to make the novel into being. He seems to be tired with the material savagery, corruption, destruction of civilization and devalued experience. At the beginning of the novel, we find that the novelist has chosen a place for the story far away from the civilized society. He brought all his characters to a fictitious paradise. Here what happened is completely a common scenario of a civilized society. Those who are good and virtuous are doomed to kill. Jack’s party killed Simon taking him for a beast. This Simon is very Wise person in the novel. On the other hand, Piggy, the most intellectual and scientific minded boy had been killed by smashing down his head by stone. So cruelty crosses its limits and destroyed the civilization.He described the human psychology by chilbren to show human

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