In ‘The Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding we see the true nature of evil, we see all the evil roots and what leads to all of savagery and wildness. Lack of law-order and societal norms of behaviour that are expected in modern civilisation and societies are essentially the key to savagery and evil. The problem is that when there is no order, people are tempted to do what they want, without anybody’s opinion taken into account. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is an allegory of a group of British schoolboys who were marooned on a tropical island. While there are no adults at the island they try governing themselves. They try to keep a civilised society but it doesn’t end in the way it was supposed to. William Goulding proves through the novel that savagery is present in every human being. …show more content…
Who could have ever imagined children who are like angelic figures with creative, bright futures to come will end up showing their evilness. Evidently you will never imagine a savage kid, savagery lies deep inside every individual just like jack in the book LOTF. An example taken from the novel which exemplifies the savage inside each individual is, “Jack stood up… Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged the blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair.” (Golding, 77). This evidently exemplifies Jack’s inner soul and the cruelty which is hidden deep inside him. In the civilised place he lived in, food was available from the supermarket where all the meat was already dead and packaged for him. In this marooned island, there was no supermarket, there was berries on trees but no dead meat for them. Killing a pig for Jack was just not a necessity for food but rather it was a necessity for him to kill. Jack was having the pleasure in killing an innocent’s life that is why he stated, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Bash him in!” (Goulding,