Envy In Lord Of The Flies

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“Beware of Envy because Envy consumes Virtues just as Fire consumes Firewood” (Muhammad). There exists a tremendous amount of emotions that can alter a human into someone they thought they would never become. Envy can consume the strongest of people from the inside out. William Golding shows this envious behavior in his book Lord of the Flies through a boy named Jack Merridew. However, this behavior can also occur in the real world, quite more often than someone would expect. Minh Nguyen is an example of an immensely envious man in the real world, which caused him to commit a horrendous crime. Envy is a monstrous disease which all of humankind possesses and can cause severe damage if used in the wrong way. Envy can turn a person into someone