Evil Humanity In the novel The Lord of the Flies, Golding implies that human nature is inherently evil which is an overall fair assessment of human nature as there have been many instances throughout history and stories that support this idea. Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies, Golding provides a profound insight into human nature. He builds on a message that all human beings have natural evil inside them. For example, when Roger at first throws rocks with no intention to harm because he’s still living by the rules in his old life. But further on, Roger pushes a boulder onto Piggy, killing him. “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever… Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea” (Golding 180-181). The growth of a harmless pebble into a lethal boulder, shows Roger’s …show more content…
In Animal Farm, George Orwell presents human nature to also be wicked. For example, when Napoleon murdered the animals for unjustified reasons. “They were all slain on the spot. And so, the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet” (Chapter 7). When the animals were just confessing mistakes they made, Napoleon terminated them because he felt like it. This illustrates how human nature is corrupt and evil. Animal Farm includes several disturbing instances of the pigs taking advantage of the rest of the animals. The pig’s cruelty grew as the book went on. “fools! fools! do you not see what is written on the side of that van... They are taking Boxer to the knacker’s” (Chapter 9). This is when Napoleon decides to lie to all of the animals and kill one of their strongest friends/workers. Napoleon doesn’t have a reason for this, he just does because he can. Overall, Animal Farm clearly gives another example of how human nature is inherently evil and