Robert Louis Stevenson says that “In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives, the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer” (Stevenson, 43). But the question is, what? Which one wins the most? It’s a question that many authors have used as the premise of their books. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding states that people are inherently evil. This correctly displays humans’s instinctive behavior because they’re naturally selfish and prejudiced. This can be proven using the books Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird. In Lord of the Flies, Golding presents a group of boys who have been stranded on an island without adults. The boy's society as a whole because they all have different characteristics. He uses them to show that humans are naturally inclined to do evil. One time he shows this is when a boy has just been killed and Jack, who is now referred to as Chief, says “Tomorrow...we shall hunt again” (160). He has just killed a boy who has been through the same situation he went through, and he feels no remorse. This shows inherent evil because right after killing somebody, he instinctively thought to go kill someone else. This …show more content…
In Lord of the Flies, everyone is setting up the shelter and Jack says "Except me and my hunters” (50). Jack implies that he and his hunters don’t need to help set up the shelter. This shows that they are naturally selfish because they could’ve helped the boys build it to get it done faster for everyone. They instead just watched them build it. In animal farms, selfishness is also displayed. George Orwell uses the pigs to show this. One day, “the pigs suddenly moved into the farmhouse and took up their residence there” (26). The pigs just decided to live in the farmhouse. They didn’t take a vote or invite anyone else, they just decided that they were the most important. This is selfish because they didn’t think of others before doing