The True Human Nature In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding depicts several children who struggle with civilizing and having laws when they’re left stranded on an island. Reflecting a dystopian society, and reflective of the World War II imagery, the boys represent how inertly savage humans can become with the lack of law and rules. Again, shot down by a war plane, the children stranded on the island, seek a form of civilization, but eventually, the stressors of tyrannical peer pressure destroys any hope of a civilization, and diminishes into a diabolical form of savagery. During the whole of the novel, two boys named Piggy and Simon are considered to be more good than evil. They would rather help others than themselves, however they are outspoken by the subsequent savage dictator, Jack Merridew. …show more content…
Savagery in Lord of the Flies seems to have a bandwagon like corruption in reality: if most people are doing it, then it’s okay for me to do it too. An example from the novel is the chant, “Kill the beast. Cut his throat. Spill his blood”, after which the savages end up murdering Simon (the Christ figure) when they “struck, bit, tore” (Golding 218*). When the group starts chanting and dancing around the fire at Jack’s feast, even the “civilized” people join in and pretend to be ignorant and faultless when they witnessed Simon’s murder. However, Simon was the best example of the good in humanity, especially when his word, “You’ll get back to where you came from”, is reiterated throughout the book as a sense of hope and guidance (Golding