How Does Golding Present Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

Human Nature in Lord of the Flies

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he portrays his beliefs that human nature is naturally evil by showing how the boys’ behavior changes on the island without adult supervision. Jack first loses his civility when he attempts to kill a pig. The other boys ask him why he didn’t just stab it which frustrates Jack and he thinks “Next time there would be no mercy” (Golding 31). Jack makes a promise to himself that he will kill a pig and not show any mercy as he just did. Golding depicts human nature as inherently evil and selfish, and this take is an accurate portrayal of true human nature based on what humans have done throughout time.

Golding believes that human nature is naturally cruel, and he shows this

Jack uses a ‘mask’ when he goes hunting to hide in the forest better and blend in. The mask, however, also serves another purpose. The mask allows Jack to hide his face, insecurities, and shame. With the mask on, Jack “began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Golding 64). Upon putting the mask on, Jack begins to act very rashly and even starts to scare the other hunters. This change in behavior shows Jack’s true nature and savagery as he drifts away from the rules of society. Roger’s true nature isn’t seen at the beginning of the book as he is still used to the regular rules of society that he has grown up with. To pass the time, Roger begins to throw small rocks at Henry, but he is aiming to miss him because “round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him” (Golding 62). Roger has been taught to suppress his true nature and not harm those who are weaker and smaller than him. This mindset drifts away further into the novel when he starts to kill pigs and he finds out what it’s like to be himself. In the heat of an argument, when Jack and his tribe are arguing with Ralph, “high overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his

During the years of World War two, Japan’s biological experiments were kept under wraps, and the truth was suppressed. The Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731 committed atrocious war crimes against Chinese citizens in the northeastern city of Harbin. In the mid-1930s, Unit 731 was tasked with the testing, producing, and storing of biological weapons. Unit 731 tested on thousands of citizens. None of them survived the experiments which included: “vivisections without anesthesia; injections of venereal diseases to examine their spread; amputations to study blood loss; removal of other body parts and organs; starvation; and deliberate exposure to freezing temperatures to examine the effects of frostbite” (Donovan 11). The workers of Unit 731 did horrendous things to people who had nothing to do with the war that was going on. The story only gets worse when the war ends. Japan had a plan to drop plague-infected fleas on San Diego, but the war ended before the plan could come to fruition. When the Allies came for Japan, they allowed the leader of Unit 731 and his associates immunity from prosecution for war crimes because “The U.S. wanted Unit 731’s research for its own use, and it wanted to keep that information out of the hands of others” (Donavan 18). When the US took the