Darkness In Lord Of The Flies

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Every man has darkness within them, even the most innocent of man can succumb to this darkness and lead a society to complete destruction and chaos. The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of British boys who have been evacuated because of a nuclear war. During the evacuation their plane is attacked and the boys find themselves stranded on an unknown island with nothing but the clothes on their backs. The island is originally seen as a place of paradise, but the boys soon realize that it is in fact a very sinister place. With no adults to help the boys eventually succumb to the darkness within them and lead their society to chaos and destruction. Every society has defects which trace back to the defects of human nature,