Lord Of The Flies Barbaric Human Nature

What Wicked and Barbaric Human Nature is Capable Of

Humans are the only beings on Earth that can question their personal character. Some people believe that there is more good in the world than evil, while others believe that there is more evil in the world than good. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding presents a society where human nature is filled with evil; Humanity does have positive traits, but it is mostly wicked and barbaric.

Golding presents a society where human nature is possessed by evil. Golding believes that people are evil by nature, which is true. The author displays multiple examples in the novel where evil is shown. At the beginning of the novel, the boys tried to be civilized by using the conch. Ralph used the

One example of wickedness in Lord of the Flies is when Jack was ordering people on the island to be tortured and organizing the murder of Ralph. Jack had Roger make “a stick sharpened at both ends” to behead Ralph as they would if they were hunting a pig (Golding 190). The act of torturing people is extremely evil. It is malicious and wicked, and Jack and Roger are trying to kill Ralph out of their evil, wicked nature. Ralph hadn’t done anything wrong with them, the boys decided to hunt them out of evil will. Another example of wickedness within is in Animal Farm when Boxer dies and is betrayed by Napoleon. Squealer had told the animals that Boxer died in the hospital, but the “animals had noticed that the van which took Boxer away was marked ‘Horse Slaughter’ and had actually jumped to the conclusion that Boxer was being sent to the knackers” (Orwell 81). Prior to Boxer's death, he had been overworked on the farm. Boxer was the hardest worker on the farm for Napoleon. Once Boxer collapsed from being overworked, Napoleon sent him away to a glue factory for profit. Napoleon covered this up by saying Boxer had passed away in the hospital. What Napoleon had done was an act of wickedness and

In Lord of the Flies, the boys on the island were savagely chanting after hunting for food. The boys chanted: “Kill the pig”. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (Golding 69). The boys’ chanting represents how they have gone from being civilized to acting barbaric and savage. They have lost their civilized values and turned to barbaric nature. Any sane and normal person would not act like the boys did. The boys went from trying to have their own civilization with rules using the conch to acting barbaric and not following the rules that they originally created when they got onto the island. Another example of barbaric nature in the real world is the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. The Rwandan genocide was the mass murder of a minority in Rwanda, Tutsis. Rwanda was divided up into two ethnic groups: Hutus and Tutsis. The Hutus wanted to kill the Tutsis because they wanted the political power that the Tutsis held in Rwanda. The Tutsis held political power in Rwanda because the Belgians favored them, and Belgium colonized Rwanda at the time. In an article by Britannica, it estimates that “more than 800,000 civilians, primarily tutsi, but also moderate Hutu, were killed...” (Rwanda Genocide of). The Rwandan genocide is an example of a barbaric event in history. Society in Rwanda was collapsing at the time and the citizens were acting uncivilized. The people of Rwanda were acting barbaric by torturing, killing each other,