Nature Of Man In Lord Of The Flies

Every civilization that is born has and will die by man’s nature. The nature of man is violent and aggressive. War between nations and within a nation is unavoidable and will always end in the death of a civilization. Eventually someone will change and others will follow which ends with the destruction of a country. People write about the nature of man and how it will destroy us all. Man’s unavoidable nature of violence destroys civilizations.
Sigmund Freud wrote a letter to Einstein explaining why civilizations fall. He says civilizations crash due to people not giving up their freedom. In Lord of the Flies, Jack refuses to give up his freedom for hunting and this results in a war between Ralph and Jack. “‘I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too’” (Golding,127). Jack and other hunters leave the main group to start their own tribe of hunters and savages. This leads to the war between Ralph and Jack. Jack later starts to attack and destroy their camp. “Harrison tore the straps of his handicaps harness like wet tissue

People were in a nuclear war and killed themselves. “The house stood alone in a city of rubble and ashes. This was the one house left standing. At night the ruined city gave off a radioactive glow which could be seen for miles” (Bradbury, 1). Jack also starts to kill. First he almost kills Robert, then he kills Simon and Piggy. “Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain” (Golding, 114). Jack and Robert were reenacting how they killed a pig, then Jack started to actually hurt Robert and almost killed him. “The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise, something about a body on the hill” (Golding, 152). Simon was attempting to tell the others about how the ‘beast’ was just a dead man on a hill, but the savages attacked Simon and killed