Inherently Evil Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

In William Golding’s novel, The Lord of The Flies, he suggests that humans are innately evil because the characters actions support the idea throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, the characters actions and their overall behaviors show how the boys are innately evil. First, the overall enjoyment and pleasure the boys receive when they were torturing and killing the pigs shows the evil that is built up inside of them. Readers can see in the novel, “As they danced, they sang, Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in” (Golding 75). This passage shows how cheerfully and joyously the boys sang as they were killing and torturing the pig. By the fierceness in their words you can tell the amount of enjoyment they were having as they were tormenting

Not with you.’ Most of the boys were looking down now, at the grass or their feet. Jack cleared his throat again. ‘I am not going to be part of Ralph’s lot.’ He looked along the right-hand logs, numbering the hunters that had been a choir. ‘I am going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too’” (Golding 127). This quote shows how Jack decided to leave the group and go off on his own. Jack chose to do this because he did not like Ralph’s rules and wanted to make his own rules and not have to listen to anybody. Jack’s pride got to him because he thought since he was leader he was superior over the rest and through that he should be in charge. He was being selfish because he was only thinking about himself he was not thinking about the overall success of the group and how they were going to get rescued. As mentioned previously, he thought this was all a game and that everything would work out. He was not thinking about what would be best for the group for survival and hope of being