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How Does Golding Present The Evil In Lord Of The Flies

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Are all humans capable of evil? In Willian Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Golding portrays human nature as evil through depicting how easily the boys lose their humanity on the island. This is an accurate depiction of human nature because humans tend to lose morality when they are put in a situation that requires it. When discussing the beast, Simon says, “What I mean is... maybe it’s only us (Golding, 89).” Simon is saying that the only beast on the island is the boys, implying that they are the evil ones. This conveys Golding’s view of how human nature is evil. Later in the book Lord of the Flies tells Simon, “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill... I’m part of you (Golding, 143).” The Lord of the Flies symbolizes …show more content…

After the Battle of the Cowshed when Boxer thinks that he killed a stableboy, Snowball tells him, “War is war. The only good human being is a dead one (Orwell, 22).” Boxer responds with, “I have no wish to take life, not even human life (Orwell, 22).” Boxer did not mean to kill the human, but was forced to under the circumstances he was in. This displays how it is human nature to be evil, even when people think they are good. At the end of the book Orwell writes, “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was which (Orwell, 71)” This conveys Orwell’s comparison of humans to the pigs in Animal Farm. The comparison expresses how humans are equally as corrupt and evil as …show more content…

It shows how ordinary people can do horrific things. On April 6, 1994, an airplane carrying President Cyprien Ntaryamira was shot down. It was blamed on the Tutsi people, causing a genocide. According to History.com, “The genocide spread throughout the country with shocking speed and brutality, as ordinary citizens were incited by local officials and the Hutu Power government to take up arms against their neighbors (History.com).” This highlights how the genocide was done mostly by normal citizens. They did evil things because of the circumstances they were under, such as being encouraged by the government and other people. This is like how Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric helped kill Simon because of peer pressure from the other boys. Encyclopedia Brittanica summarizes that, “Radio broadcasts further fueled the genocide by encouraging Hutu civilians to kill their Tutsi neighbors, who were referred to as “cockroaches” who needed to be exterminated (Encyclopedia Brittanica)” This is an example of how propaganda and dehumanization can also cause people to do evil things. This is similar to how in Animal Farm Napoleon called Snowball names to convince the other animals he was bad. It is also similar to how in Lord of the Flies, the boys called Simon “The beast” to convince themselves that they had not murdered a human. This highlights how evil can be brought out in people by

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Tutsis were restricted and dehumanized in many ways. Tensions between the two castes were very high. After Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana’s plane got shot down, in April 1994, the executions really began. Hutus were basically hunting Tutsis and killing them. It didn’t matter if they were men, women, or even infants; no Tutsis were exempt from the slaughters taking place.

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They were killed if they were an adult or a child. We also see that women were brutally raped by Hutu guards and they further killed by them. This shows the sick viciousness of the genocide and the attitude towards all the Tutsis. Similarly Source A shows us how the Rwandan Tutsis that were trying to outrun the Hutu Extremists and survive the genocide had to keep moving during the day. It tells us that any little aspect that went wrong could be the end of your life.

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Source A explains how the killings started with little planning, other began the killings once they were given orders, the only order really was to kill the Tutsi’s and to not stop. This shows how their retaliation and their orders that they were given were not a build up to get back at the Tutsi’s for past years but rather because their President had been killed and they blamed the Tutsi’s. Source D expands on what source A mentioned how just a couple of hours after the assassination, the massacres began, showing how quickly the crash actually triggered the Hutu’s to begin the genocide. Both source an and H speak about how the Hutu’s communicated through radios in order to discuss which Tutsi’s were to be killed and where those Tutsi’s were.

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When the “beast” is first introduced, it is nothing more than the children's fear manifested. In chapter 2 of “The Lord of the Flies” (Doc. A) a boy “About six years old, and (with) one side of his face blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark” imagines a “beast” in the form of a snake-like figure. Their elected leader, Ralph, desperately tries to dissuade this

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The quote “‘Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head.” (Golding 164) expresses that the Lord of the Flies is divulging to Simon that the evil is not something that can be hunted or killed but is within the boys. Simon also learns that the beast of evilness was in the boys all along. The theme Inherent Evil of Man is displayed through Simon learning that evil is within the boys and that this was the beast. This shows how the evil action appears as a beast and the understanding of evilness by

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This is shown when the “Lord of the Flies” identifies himself as a beast, and speaks to Simon saying, “You knew didn’t you?’ I’, part of you.” Just before this conversation, Jack and his

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In the book The Lord of the Flies , Simon states that “maybe … there is a beast …. What I mean is … maybe it’s only us” ( p. 89 ). What Simon said is that the boys thought that there was a beast on the island, but in reality, the beast was the boys’ inner self. Throughout the book, the boys have been convinced that there is a beast waiting in the shadows. Although this “beast” is what motivates the boys to jump into action, the boys do not realize that the real beast lies within each one of them.

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The flies swarming around it can be seen as a metaphor for the boys letting societies bounds go, and accepting the bas over good. When Simon initially hallucinates The Beast speaking, it is

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Hutu who differed with the government and the Tutsi were both targeted. The murders were carried out by the Hutu official that took over the government. The RTLM (Radio Television des Mille Collines) announced to the population to keep an out out for the “enemies” and if they were to see them to kill them. Tutsi and Hutu who were able fled to other countries.

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