Human Nature In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies : Is human nature innate

' I believe that man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature '. William Golding ,'The Writer in His Age '

William Golding was born in England in 1911. He studied at Oxford University studying science and then British literature. After the Second World War , he worked as a teacher for a long time.In 1954 he published his first novel 'Lord of the Flies'. Golding had a great reputation and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He died of heart failure on 19 June 1993 at Perranarworthal , Cornwall.

Lord of the Flies is not an adventure novel written for children, it is even allegory written in a realistic narrative, that is ,it is a story with symbolic meanings. Golding tells how human nature is savagery and darkness in his novel.

Lord of the Flies shows that even pure and clean children can be wild, and that their ambition can be a slaver, just like the elders.Over time, people tend to be predisposed to themself inside. Lord of the Flies, which provide us to query and think ,seems like a simple matter ,but it contains a lot of things inside.

He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were (290/75). Every man has both goodness and evil. Little by little, but we always know that you are a bad person and you are well. Some of them were bad and they were bad or their goodness side was too much and they were good . What is influential in the formation of such

The novel shows us how people are wild in an environment where there is no authority and rules.

However, fear is a very important vital function. This feeling warns the living things against possible dangers and keeps them awake. Thus, people are protected from danger and take necessary precautions to survive . We can't keep ourselves from our fear of the norms. Children do not have such a fear, they crush their oppressed friends, they make fun if they have to make fun of it, they fight if they want to fight. We know this to be a little too much, but we did not expect it to reach the same scary dimensions as the book. For instance, at first, Roger is afraid of throwing stones at children playing on the beach, and then he starts to do what he wants to do an island. Does human nature change according to our fears, this question may come to mind. As we see in the novel, some children if they want to stay with Ralph, they have to go with Jack because they are afraid of him .For instance , “You got to go because it’s not safe—” “—they made us. They hurt us—” “Who? Jack?” (291/270) .To protect themselves