Lord Of The Flies Inherently Evil Essay

Are People Inhertily Evil

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. (Xun Zi). For example in the book Lord of the flies, The author Williming Golding talks about how people are inherently evil but society keeps everyone in check. You can see this throughout the Lord of The Flies, An example of this would be Jack one of the older boys who broke away from the rest of the kids to form his group all about killing animals and the beast. Golding wrote this book from his experiences going to war, He saw the worst of people during this time. Human nature is inherently evil, but civilization keeps us in check.

Human nature is inherently evil by thinking that their ideas are better than others and that they need to convert

From The book Lord of The Flies, the author writes about Piggy and him telling the other kids at their meetings that we need rules to keep peace on the island “We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. Were English; And the English are best at everything.” This quote from William Goldings shows That rules keep everyone in check. When these rules go out the window people will turn into savages and become evil. We can see this play out in the book Lord of The Flies when Jack makes his group with no rules, then the whole island becomes insane and savage. During the Stanford Prison experiment they took it too far and used their power to create evil “Zimbardo admitted that during the experiment he had sometimes felt more like a prison superintendent than a research psychologist. Later on, he claimed that the experiment “social forces and environmental contingencies” had led the guards to behave badly. However, others claimed that the original advertisement attracted people who were predisposed to authoritarianism.” The college students that were the guards showed a lot of authority power some even becoming cruel. This shows that human nature is wired to get power and keep power. The guards had the power to manipulate the Prisoners and make them mentally insane. The guards also kept this power because the fake society that they created allowed them to continue their torture. In William Golding's book the Lord of The Flies, Jack talks in their meetings and says that the rules don't matter and they should be free “Bollocks to the rules! We're strong, we hunt. If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down and beat and beat!” Jacks says that they don't need rules and you can see this come into play at the end of the book when Jack creates his group on the other side of the island where there are