Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

Humans’ bad nature

Throughout human history, humans have had both good and evil tendencies. This makes one wonder if humans are genuinely good or naturally evil. In the novel Lord of the Flies the author William Golding accurately portrays evil human nature through the character in the novel. Being stranded on the island makes

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Golding demonstrates bad human nature through Jack. Jack has an obsession for hunting pigs and, and killing them, and sacrificing them. In the novel Jack turns cruel and shows he is a savage through him showing he has no sense of justice or what is right. After successfully hunting and capturing the pig, Jack, and his tribe chant, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood”

By being isolated on the island they are showing evil human nature and how they have become psychotic and brutal humans. Furthermore, evil human nature is seen with Simon’s encounter with the Lord of the Flies. As Simon spies on Jack and his tribe he comes across a pig’s head mounted in the ground. Simon suddenly begins to have a seizure and he begins to hallucinate that the Pig’s head is the Lord of the Flies, and the head begins talking to him and says,” You knew, didn’t you? I’am part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are the way they are” while Simon hallucinates (Golding 143). This quote from the Lord of the Flies demonstrates that Simon is right about the beast just being everyone’s imagination. The Lord of the Flies implies to Simon that evil is within the humans and cannot be killed

He uses the character Napolean to demonstrate this view of evil human nature. Napolean is the leader of the farm, and he does many evil acts through the book. He leads by corruption, aggression, and violence. Napolean displays his participation in violence when the narrator says, "And so the tale of confessions and executions went on, until there was a pile of corpses lying before Napoleon’s feet and the air was heavy with the smell of blood, which had been unknown there since the expulsion of Jones.” (Orwell). This shows that Napolean is a violent leader and enjoys participating in evilness and violence. Napolean has countless examples of showing evil human nature, but another example is at the very end of the book when,” The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” (Orwell). This quote means that animals at their absolute worst turned in to people and this implies that humans are naturally very evil. Napolean is a strong example of evil human