Evil In Lord Of The Flies

Evil is an inherent trait that humans have. In William Golding’s book, The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on an island and have to figure out how to get rescued. At first, the boys have a lot of fun because there are no adults, but as they’re on the island longer and longer, they start to turn on each other. The author of the book, chose to make the characters young British boys for multiple reasons. First, they are British because the world sees British people as very civilized and not very likely to act like savages. Second, he made them young boys that are all under the age of recognizable moral maturity. This way he could show that evil is in human nature and is not a learned trait. Human nature, which is evil, naturally

Without rules, there’s nothing stopping people from hurting each other. After Jack and his hunters didn’t do their job, Ralph and Piggy were mad at them, “ This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach. Piggy sat down with a grunt. Jack stood over him” (Golding 71). The evil in Jack made him hit Piggy because he didn’t like Piggy. After starting their own tribe, Jack and a couple hunters hunted a pig, “ Roger began to withdraw his spear and boys noticed it for the first time. Robert stabilized the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously. Right up her ass” (Golding 135)! Obviously the boys had to hunt for food, but they didn’t have to do it so violently and make a joke of it. After Piggy’s death, the bloodlust takes control of Jack, “ Viciously, with full intention he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water” (Golding 181). Jack didn't care about the consequences and tried to kill Ralph just because he was calling him names. Violence and Anarchy also go hand in hand with

The first death to happen was the kid with the birthmark’s death, “... and them little ‘uns was wandering about down there where the fire is. How d’you know they aren’t still there?” (Golding 46). They had all started the fire without thinking about any dangers and accidentally caused his death. They even go as far as forgetting about him completely later on in the book. The next death is Simon’s, “ Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out toward the open sea” (Golding 154). The boys had killed Simon because they thought he was the beast, some of them probably even knew it was Simon. While trying to get his glasses back, Piggy is killed by Roger, “ The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (Golding 181). Roger had mercilessly killed Piggy because he tried to take back his glasses and Jack’s tribe felt like the glasses now belonged to them. These deaths clearly show the evil in