The Evil of Mankind Illustrated in Golding's Lord of the Flies

Can we stop the evil within mankind?

People always hear about girls getting raped, murdered and kidnapped. The boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding do practically the same thing by showing how evil man kind can be. In William Golding’s book, Lord of the Flies, a group of young British school boys have crash-landed on an uncharted island without parent authority. They are finding it harder to control the evil that is coming out of them. The boys fall apart politically, psychologically, and spirituality by wanting everything but the right thing (to be civil and respectful boys).

When setting up a society that is politically stable, which means people need to be able to communicate with others without violence. “‘We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us’” (p.16). When Piggy says to blow the conch and the boys will come when they hear it, he means that the boys will come together and have a controlled society by having an assembly. This passage shows that the society is being created because they’re using the conch to call the boys into an assembly. However over time the boy’s politically just fall apart, “ The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee, the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (p.181). When Golding says that the conch exploded and couldn’t be repaired so it “died” and the two things for a controlled society, are destroyed. This passage shows the end of society because the linking connections to civilization are destroyed. It also shows how savage the boys have become because they killed one of their own. As the reader may see that getting a balanced political society is quite hard but the boys must create one before moving o...

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...save” them from the island, but some of the boys are alive and when the navel officer comes to the island the boys suddenly become little boys again in front of parent authority. Finally now everyone can see that if you don’t have a politically stable environment you cannot have a philological or spiritual stable environment.

Furthermore, the boys are coming from innocent little boys to killing their own for pleasure. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding people can see how innocent boys appear to be until they are isolated from parent authority which breaks them down politically, psychologically and spirituality. The boys break down because of the lack of parent authority. They also break down because, they are going through physical and mental changes that every boy goes through and they don’t know how to control it which leads into the destruction of society.