Lord Of The Flies Human Nature Analysis

Lord of the Flies: Human nature and Society People interact together to create a society. And within that society, a political system is formed to regulate and govern. However, when that society corrupts, who is to blame? The leader? Political system? Or the people? William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies believes the defects of society are caused by the defects of human nature. The novel demonstrates the defects of individuals’ human nature corrupting society through Ralph’s failed civilization, Samneric’s fear, and Roger’s natural evil.
Ralph, the elected leader of the boys’ society attempts to build a successful civilization, but fails wretchedly due to the individuals’ flaws. To build a strong civilization, contribution and participation

Samneric maintain their civilized behaviour until they face overwhelming power, and feel fear. When Jack threatens Samneric, they betray Ralph and “[Jack’s] yelling ceased, and Samneric lay looking up in quiet terror. Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.” (202) Even though Samneric do not want Jack as the leader, their fear of Jack’s power led them to go against their will to fight against savage. The fear causes Samneric to ignore their rational beliefs and purposely choose the wrong path. As the result of their wrongful and cowardly decision, Ralph, the leader of civilization loses power and wields “nameless authority”. Furthermore, they participate in killing Ralph by giving his location when Jack asks and, “The twin moaned faintly and they squealed again. ‘He meant [Ralph]’d hide in there?’ ‘Yes-yes-oh-!” (214). Samneric’s cowardice and fear impinge them to ignore their morals in making decisions, and take part in barbarous murder. Samneric allow the fear to take over their sanity and become savage, and abandon the civilized society they once lived in. The human nature of fear shown through Samneric is a strong emotion that will cause people to give into the sin and discard their

Roger is a character who is evil from the beginning but restricting himself. In the beginning of the novel, when the boys were once civilized, “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, threw it at Henry-threw it to miss.” (64). Roger hesitates to aim at Henry because of the teachings of society remain in him, but still throws because of his natural cruelty. However, when the society’s rules that constrain the evil within Roger’s human nature cease to exist, the evil will take over him and lead the society to corruption. When Piggy tries to practice the society’s rule, “High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. […] The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” (200) Previously, Roger could not harm Henry, but when the rules of society change, Roger does not hesitate and commits murder without guilt. In addition, he also destroys the rule of the civilization, the conch with feeling of freedom. Ergo, Roger is Golding’s attempt to show the relation between human nature of evil and the