William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

The heavy rain slammed against the ground in the dark of night. The man rounded the corner only to witness the dreadful sight of a lifeless figure limp on the coated concrete. It was horrid, blood splatter, and torn flesh. The torture that this poor person could have endured would be preposterous. He was enraged, teeth clenched, he cursed the gods for allowing such people to get killed by emotionless and cruel “humans”. Every single person born on this Earth is not invincible to such acts. Similar to William Golding, every human contains a non-civilized or barbaric characteristic due to the fact that people always struggle for power, someone’s craving for their desires can cloud their judgment of what’s right, and the only thing that contains

As humans, we tend to want something so much to the point of where we ‘need’ to have it. This may result in losing focus on what is actually happening which will cause one to focus on what they want instead. Someone’s desires can range from small things like phones to large things like world dominance. In the book Lord of the Flies, William Golding plays around the fact that humans are savage and that it this trait brings their downfall. Jack who is the major antagonist loses grasp on simply surviving on the inhabited island and begins to desire the need to hunt pigs. His desire got out of hand which brought forth his savage side where it caused the death of two characters. One of the deaths were caused by Jack and his group since they lost sight of what was happening and focused on one objective: “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill. ‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’... The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face… The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge…” (Golding 168-69). Jack and his group ended up taking Simon as the beast which was caused since Jack and his group were acting out of control and focused on themselves. This lead to the death of Simon, who was one of the more civilized people there. Desires can be huge in a person’s decisions, and it can play a key role for the good or