Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding Through his writing in the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding's view on nature is not as in the plant and tree kind of nature, but on the nature of man at a young age of life. Golding is trying to portray what instincts and desires are like at an early time in a man's life when there are no adults around to help shape those feelings to fit-in with the main stream society that people live in everyday. The nature of man is any and all of the instincts and desires of a person or animal. Instincts are a very important part of the nature of man because instincts are things that people react to, things that have grown into a person from repeated experiences and then get passed on to future generations as something they would do like a habit that can't be changed. An instinct is an inborn tendency to believe in a way characteristic of a species, in this case humans. When Ralph meets Piggy and they figure out that there are no adults on the island with them, Ralph calls a meeting with the conch that he and Piggy find on the beach by the platform. He knows there needs to be order among the boys, so he suggests there be a chief among them. He is elected chief by a majority of the boys, and by what Ralph's already been taught, gives the boys tasks so that there will be plenty of food, shelters will be built, and they will have a place where things will be half-way sanitary to get rid of waste. Since the littluns are not really old enough to understand things very well so they just play, explore, and rely on the bigger children to provide for them. Piggy's instinct is to stay back and out of the way while putting his imput in on things but not volunteering to actually do the work and using asthma as his excuse. Simon is curious about his surroundings and wants to find out what's here on the island. He is unafraid of the island and does not believe in the beast. A desire is suggesting a longing for something lacked or needed. All through the novel there are places where Ralph dreams of his home and garden back in Great Britain. He dreams of his mother calling him for afternoon tea. He remembers an odd house on a block that stands apart from the rest.

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