How does William Golding interrogate the truth about human nature? The human being is complex. Its nature even more so. Throughout his book, Lord of the Flies, William Golding attempts to interrogate the truth about human nature. William Golding was present during the events of World War 2. This experience had a deep influence on him. Leading him to write the book. The setting of the book is a band of English schoolboys who are marooned on an island with almost no chance of rescue. The book highlights the gradual decline into disorder of the boys who at first tried to build an organised society with assigned roles for each person. One aspect of human nature that we constantly encounter in history and the present is that humans like to pick on the weakest members of their group or society. The victim is either weak physically or intellectually. In Lord of the Flies, much of the bullying is focused on the youngest boys and Piggy. Piggy is an overweight child who ends up killed by members of the group. …show more content…
In chapter 2, the boys have started a bonfire in the hopes that the smoke will attract rescue. However, the fire burns out of control and Piggy starts scolding the boys. However, Jack says: ‘conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain…shut up’ to Piggy. But then later on in the chapter, Jack uses the conch to talk. This shows the underlying hypocrisy of the boys. Then, in chapter 5 of the book, Jack calls all of the younger boys, or ‘littlun’s’ as the book refers to them as ‘a lot of cry-babies and sissies.’ However, the younger boys are still members of the society yet Jack and several of the other boys belittle