Lord Of The Flies Analysis

The Chunk of Evil that Destroys Some and Stay Hidden In Others

Evil? Is there a chunk of evil deep down inside everyone? Whether people are willing to admit it or not there is a little piece of evil underneath everyone's skin. In William Golding’s lord of the flies, Zimbardo’s ted-talk on detrimental prison experiments, Milgram’s ted-talk on dreadful electric shock teaching experiments, and Pinker’s ted-talk on insightful personal findings and studies. Three of them show that humanity is taken away because the evil underneath a person when power is put in there hands and one shows that humanity is the least evil it has been in years and fear is all that we hide behind. An argument will be made between the three is pinker right in that humanity

Once humanity is gone and the evil inside takes over and there is no longer anything stopping animalistic savagery to come out in a human. In lord of the flies, a group of boy's are trapped on island causing them to fall into a habit of savagery against each other. Soon they reject a leader, meetings, the conch and then after that all forms of humanity have left the island. The children strip of the uniforms they came in, Ralph's hair begins to cover his eyes and animalistic behaviors come into play. “He knelt, holding the shell of water […]. He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He spilt the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly. Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them”. (Golding-31-33) in Lord of the flies, the boys feel a new identity as civilization fades early on in the book. Zimbardo’s Ted Talk on the Stanford Prison Experiment relates in proving that when freedom is put into play the evil comes out from inside a person. The Jail supervisors are the law. The jail supervisors physically, sexually and mentally abuse the inmates. A jail supervisor would not act in this manner out of the walls of the prison, in