Right And Wrong In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

Have you ever done something that you knew was wrong but did it anyway? Most people have. But why is it so terrifying? It's so scary because when you do something wrong, there is always a punishment waiting for you. It's the adrenaline rush before you get caught, that makes people partake in more risky behavior. The more bad things you do, the more the line between right and wrong starts to blur. When human beings are taken from civilized society, they become stripped of their sense of identity because there are no consequences for their actions.
In Lord of the Flies, By William Golding, He portrays how he believes juvenile boys would slowly be stripped of their innocence as the amount of time spent away from home increases.
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The group of young adults was split in two; half of the group would be “prisoners” and the other half would be “guards”. The point of the experiment was to see what happens when you put people in an “evil” place, and when you do does the good outside of your situation keep you sane? The experiment was set to last 14 days but lasted 6 days as it was seen as unethical. One of the “guards” was nicknamed John Wayne after his aggressive ways. After just a few days of being in the simulation; John Wayne started to accept his character as who he was as a person and started to be intensely aggressive, he started behaving in a way that he never would have if he had not been in this situation. At one point in the experiment, He locked a prisoner in a dark cellar called the “hole”. There the prisoner who was on a hunger strike was cursed at and suffered through hours of pounding on walls and verbal abuse. John Wayne later stated after the experiment had concluded that because no one was fighting his authority even though they all knew it was wrong, that had inspired him to act irrationally and aggressively to see just how much damage he could do before he was