In the novel Lord of The Flies, William Golding illustrated how dark our human is in our inner world. In his novel, everyone is born evil and even the kindest has an inner beast within them according to narrating a group of school boys’ tragedy path from civilization to savagery because of their natural evil and self-interest. Here, I do agree with Golding’s idea, believing in Thomas Hobbes’s theory on the state of nature where he stated that humans are selfish by nature when facing being threatened. In front of the challenge of survival, egoism can be proved by their biological origin. Some scientific research has shown the germ sell enters and settles in her uterus when a mother is pregnant. Then it begins to take in parents’ nutrients, in return, to benefit own growth. That is why a mother begins vomiting during pregnancy. When the conflict occurs, our biology is designed to first benefit ourselves; however, we can never exist free from our physical restrictions. Hence standing on the point of biology and science, our nature proved evil and selfish. …show more content…
Famines had broken out in nearly every dynasty of ancient China. There was no food for civilians. Under the threat of starvation, they had no choice but to eat each other. In the last years of Northern Song Dynasty, people even sold human meat toward the market; a young strong man’s meat was even cheaper than the meat of a pig. And we can guess how a young man ended up in pieces. The reason why people killed each other is that they just wanted to stay alive, only sacrificing others’ lives to keep themselves alive—reluctantly but still, in front of death, human-eating beasts didn’t make much difference to human