Who Is The Innocent In Lord Of The Flies

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Lord of the Flies This novel as a whole creates a different display of childhood the normal everyday portrayal. Children are thought to be innocent and uncorrupted. As demonstrated in the novel William Golding shares his opinion that children are never innocent they only act like it because of society’s rules and expectations of how children should act. Also all men women and children hold both evil and good in their souls As the novel progressed it became obvious that every action and inaction, decision and indecision that the children made mimicked the adult society. For example Ralph holds the conch and becomes the leader of the children even though the more legible is obviously piggy. In addition to seeking adult-like authority figures,the children lose their innocence and stray towards savagery when not around adults. The characteristics of Ralph remind the boys of their parents they had in their old lives back home. As ralph tries to keep the children safe and in order human nature makes that extremely hard as disagreements increase and eventually their own war ruptures. Ironically as the children are fighting against each other in their own war, so are the adults in WW1. …show more content…

It shows that no matter what age you are, if there are no rules everybody's true, evil side will show. For example, because the children had absolutely no rules or adults too inforce the laws the older children gang up on the little children, later they all participate in disgustingly killing a mother pig and eventually killing their own friend Simon. Ironically Simon was the only one who clearly saw the root of their problems. He was the only boy who understood that the only “monster” on the island were the boys

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