Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

From dinosaurs, to smart phones, to everything the future may hold, mankind has been around through all of it, providing so much of what everyone knows and loves today, almost providing all of it, but the way we treat and react to everything we love, and treat behave around everything is what is known as “human nature,” meaning the way everyone acts, feels, or behaves. It’s something all humans share, but it can be more obvious in others, or reveal itself more during stressful, joyful, or angering times. It all depends on the person in which it’s occurring. Like in the book, Lord of the Flies or the play, Julius Caesar. It is very obvious the human nature of these characters are not very… great. One, like myself, may even consider human nature

The group of survivors decide to form groups and have leaders, basically form a government for the island, but they end up going partly insane, though. This book is full of examples pertaining to human nature, because it shows what people, or some people, would do in the case of being stranded on an island. It lets the reader see what human nature would be to some in this situation. While reading this book, the reader may find the very obvious signs of evil in human nature, such as when the murdered one of the other children, Simon, and tried to justify themselves by saying it was an act of fear. The time they decided to take the kids from the group as a prisoner, which ultimately led to Piggy’s death when the other boys essentially pushed him down a mountain to his doom. Everything that led them to, and through, that point were caused by the human nature in those children, which caused them to think in an awful, yet natural way. Though there were only two given examples of the evil human nature, there are many, many more in this book that one may come

The play displays the reactions of some who were put in a jealous position. A position where one, by human nature, would almost want to kill someone because of jealousy due to that person being a higher up class than you, or that person having much better things or objects than you. In this working of Shakespeare, the characters get angry over a man becoming the king, Julius Caesar, so they gather a group of people to come murder him, only to find out that he had left everything to the town’s people so they would not have to go hungry, poor, or his money be wasted. Humanity in this play was not very… humaine, meaning it was not very kind, nor did it really have any good intentions. When you get a rumor, usually made behind someone’s back, you see it start to change people's opinions on you or the person it was about, and it begins to change the mind in weird ways, usually darker ways. This is primarily what happened until Caesar’s end. One person gained a group of normal people, and with their words, rumors, and opinions, they cooked that group into a group of batch of murders. This is a perfect example of human nature that then drove to peer pressure. This all came to a start when one person’s feelings, behaviors, etc. started to grow with other people and form