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Evil Within Everyone Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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The evil within everyone In Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, he addresses how good people can do bad things and argues that society’s rules and expectations keep people from doing bad things. Good people have the capacity to do bad things because there is evil within everyone. The theme of evil lies within everyone is shown in the quote, ¨you knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill¨. These quotes are explaining how the “Beast” is within everyone, meaning evil is within all of the boys. The boys cant hunt or kill the beast because its not a physichal being. In the quote "maybe the beast is us," piggy is explaining that he thinks that the beast might not be what they think it is.
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