Lord Of The Flies Inherently Evil Essay

In 1929 America faced the largest economic crisis in its history, The Great Depression. Americans flooded into banks looking for money while the rest of the world shuddered from the ripples. After WWI Germany had already been in a hard economic position yet they had been receiving money from America. When America stopped sending money the already unstable German economy collapsed, according to the Cambridge university German unemployment reached 24% or over 6 million people in 1932. Germans needed a strong ruler and in their fear and panic turned toward a voice they believed would save them, Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s rise to power was quick and soon turned bloody, leading to the start of WWII. The war started in 1939, in 1940 William Golding

After the war in 1954, William Golding released his first novel, Lord of the Flies where he demonstrates his beliefs on human nature. Golding misunderstands human nature when arguing humans are inherently evil.

Golding misunderstands human nature when arguing humans are inherently evil as demonstrated by Cults and Followings. The concept of innate good and evil fails to take into account the base human instinct of survival. The idea that humans are innately evil has many examples but all of those cases can be traced back to a sense of perceived rightness or safety. In march of 1997 the leader and 38 members of the Heaven’s gate cult committed suicide. The correct time “as interpreted by their leader ‘Do,’' whose real name was Marshall Applewhite, “was the closest approach of the comet Hale-Bopp to Earth.” (The Madness Of Humanity 3) “Do” convinced his followers that their path to redemption lay in an “unidentified point of light trailing the comet.” (The Madness Of Humanity 3) The act of mass suicide whether or not you consider it to be evil, was brought on because the people who participated wanted to achieve “redemption”. Their motivation was the desire to feel safe. People will do a lot to remain safe, good or evil. In Lord

As Jack led his group in a chant Simon emerged and the group chanted “Kill the beast Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”(Golding 152) The group was afraid of Simon because they thought he was the beast. Jack had convinced the group that the beast was dangerous. Jack had inadvertently started an almost cult-like fear of the beast so they sought to kill it for their own safety. The murder of Simon was an evil act committed not in the name of evil but the name of perceived safety. Golding attempts to use the scene to show the evil of human nature but all it shows is the effect of belief. The boys believed Simon was the beast so he was. They believed the beast was dangerous so to ensure their safety the beast had to die. So Simon died. Yet another example of this effect is the events of January 6, 2021. January 6th was the day the members of congress were certifying the results of the recent presidential election and more than 2,000 people stormed and entered the capital building. In his speech on the day former president Donald Trump said “And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell,