Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

The idea of human nature can be seen throughout the beginning of time. It has always been with humans. Humans have naturally acquired different traits of human nature by going through historical events by illustrating the different ways they act in situations. Historical events such as slavery greatly demonstrate what people have good or evil human nature. That is the debate. Is human nature more good or evil? In his novel Lord of the Flies, Golding portrays that human nature is inherently evil, as it is still good in human nature, evil outweighs that which is demonstrated throughout the book and real-life events.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding presents human nature as evil. While highlighting there is some good in people, evil outweighs

This illustrates to the reader the feelings Jack is going through on his first kill. It gives the reader an example of how evil nature was being shown through Jack through his lust

This can be seen throughout historical events that occurred over 100 years ago. An example of that is slavery. Slavery can be seen as a great demonstration of evil human nature through the slave owners and how they treated the slaves through the corruption of power, “Teenage girls are locked into brothels in Thailand, used by 10 to 15 men each night and then dumped when they contract HIV” (Bales 1). This illustrates one of the horrific things these people had to go through all because they were belittled and treated as if they weren’t human like everyone else. The power that these slave owners had over these slaves demonstrates how the power they had made them feel as though they could do anything which highlights the fact that one can see patterns of evil human nature throughout history, “As they are entirely the property of their masters, and as they may be disposed of by them, whenever their interest or caprice may dictate, the family relations are liable, at any time, to be disturbed. Husbands may be torn from their wives, and children from their parents, at the option of their owners” (JD Thomas 6). Throughout these historical events, it goes to prove that Golding illustrated an accurate representation that human nature is more evil than