In a battle dating back to biblical times when Adam and Eve were torn between God’s wishes and the swaying of Satan, good and evil have existed. One power, predictably evil, reigns routinely of the worldly flesh. William Golding, author of the post-World War II novel, Lord of the Flies, visits the perpetual theme of good versus evil with a group of puerile boys on a deserted island after their plane crashes. As the boys overstay their welcome on the island, Golding extrapolates the devouring power of evil throughout his world-renowned novel, while weaving the motifs of removal from society, a fight for leadership and the boys transformation into savages, in and out of the storyline. Eve, just like every human ever born, became engulfed with …show more content…
Satan, much like Jack does not want to serve, he wants to be served. As the boys have been on their elongated and unintended visit on the island, they have transitioned from tame to savage in such a short period of time. Golding highlights the recurring thread of evil and how it can transform a person, when Jack and his tribe have the “desire to squeeze and hurt” a sow, rather than strictly just kill it (115). Here the reader can also deduce that the boys sense of humanity and ethics has been been fractured like a bone, and will continue to break until they are extricated from this buildup of hell. But as one would gather, the boys break complete morality when they murder Simon, the most mature and wise boy in the whole damn bunch of savages. But of course a majority of the cowards claim it was more of a meer accident than intentional murder, because they thought it was the island’s “beast” they saw in the pitch-black of night peering out of the thick and jungle-like foliage. Simon was actually coming to inform Jack’s tribe that the “beast” was nothing they “could hunt and kill,” but maybe the beast was nothing more than what they had became; Satan (143). Most boys at such a pubescent age could never live with the fact that they had murdered someone and taken their life. But for these boys, evil has already seduced their worldly flesh and swallowed every little bit of good they had left in them. The bones that evil