William Golding's Lord Of The Flies Essay

Walter Raleigh once said, “All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.” Raleigh’s ideas of a man’s human nature to be villainous goes hand in hand with William Golding’s fictional novel, Lord Of The Flies. His book follows the disturbing events of a group British school boys, during the height of World War II. The boys endure a horrible plane crash, which leaves them deserted on an uninhabited island without any adults. Golding uses his writing to convey to reads that when man is not confined by the rules and regulations of society they revert to dangerous behaviour and fully immerse themselves into the evil that lives within. William Golding discovered a man’s ability to cause detrimental conduct during

They completely transform into the wholly murderous boys Golding knew they would become. A representation of this idea is when a tribe of hyped up boys chant in dancing circles: they are hungry for blood. It is nighttime resulting in an obscured vision, so when the boys see Simon running about screaming that he has found something, in the hussle of the night the boys act on their hyperness, they form a circle around Simon claiming he is a beast that must be slaughtered. “Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill...Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!... The stick fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center , its arms folded over its face. It was crying out over the abominable noise”(Golding 152). Now the tribe of boys have killed one of their own, and even had the audacity to pretend it was a beast while they were brutally attacking him to death. They have truly reached the lowest when it comes to a person's capability of evil. Golding uses Simon's murder to show how in the absence of a population's constraints man will lose himself to the urge to be victoriously