Lord Of The Flies Inherently Good Or Evil

Are People Innately Good or Bad?
In the book “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding a plane crashes on an uninhabited island in the middle of the ocean leaving a group of adolescent boys to survive until help comes. The boys try to elect a leader to keep order on the island, but this system eventually falls apart, leading to chaos. This book has a hidden question called an allegory. The allegory asks whether people are innately good or evil. In this case, human nature is inherently evil because once the rules and regulations are lost the boys lose their sense of morality and start to go crazy. In the book Lord of the Flies, the allegory of if people are innately good or evil comes up a lot. The stance that people are evil could suggest that

Piggy expresses a spread of anger when he states,“‘They’ve got our fire.” Rage shrilled in his voice. “They stole it!’”(Golding 169). In this moment Piggy’s glasses were stolen by the savage group to build a fire. Stealing the glasses projected some of the evil thoughts and ways from the savage group into Piggy. The author describes, “Fire racing like the tide…”(golding 199). This excerpt explains how the fire was spreading and racing after Ralph on the island. This is similar to savagery because when one person turns to an evil mindset it spreads to the people around them. Although Fire is a good example of how human nature is evil the way the kids paint their faces also points to evil and savage

The author lets us know“...Piggy was Dead…”-(Golding 186) in this statement. In this excerpt, Piggy was killed by the savage boys. Since there were no rules or laws on the island the savages went crazy and ended up killing someone and yet they didn't care because their sense of morality was lost. The author describes how jack, “Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph.”(Golding 181). This excerpt explains that when Jack threw the spear at Ralph he was intending to kill him after the only thing Ralph wanted was a simple and civilized conversation. This exemplifies that the lack of law and reasoning has led to people deeming it free to kill others over disagreements. The violence and absence of rules in this book lead to the proposition that people are