In today’s society more and more children are displaying immoral and savage behavior. It is more prevalent than ever before, being seen in all aspects of our lives. One of life’s big questions is, why the drastic change in behavior? In the book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, he writes about characters who allow their immoral behavior to cause them to become savages. The setting is on a deserted island. The young boys’ plane was shot down and crashed during one of the world wars. The main characters are Ralph and Jack. In the beginning the two work well together to get off the island, however towards the end their friendship deteriorates and they find themselves at odds. Conflicts occur in the novel when most of the boys no longer feel Ralph is a good leader. This is what sends …show more content…
There was an example of this in an article called the “Stanford Prison Experiment”. To give an overview of the experiment, twenty-four men were randomly split into guards and prisoners. The guards were given one rule, and that was not to physically hurt the prisoners, yet, within weeks that rule went out the window. The study was actually cut short due to the emotional and mental damage caused. When the test subjects were interviewed about their roles they said, “they were only acting out the roles they thought was expected of them.” The article goes further by mentioning, “... all the individuals acted in a way that they thought was required, rather than using their own judgement.” Likewise, the boys from the Lord of the Flies acted immorally because of where they were. I think the jungle and the lawless beasts the thought lived there made them believe they had to fight for their lives. This is why Jack and the others were so intent on killing the beast, until they lost their own