William Golding Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

William Golding was both an author and a royal naval officer during WWII. Golding had clearly engaged with humans in the different eras before and after the war. Golding held the belief that natural human nature is savage. Some with similar opinions may agree, but others do argue humans are born with no intent, it is simply their environment shaping their nature. Human nature is a form of an unknown that tests others with greed and their reaction to their granted emotions.

Humans have gone through centuries and centuries more to come to engage with their own specimens. The reactions from one to another vary from what is normally seen as human emotion to a reaction. Chain of events builds up to those reactions and humans learn how to engage

Some have difficulty when engaging because of their perspective of the engagement with another. When someone is told to focus on homework by a parent, the child has emotions and perspective that allows the child to react differently. Child could either cry, listen, ignore, or represent a form of reaction that is reasoned from the child’s perspective. From Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack have this building of engagement as well. At the beginning of the book, it is clear of Ralph’s role as the leader and Jack’s role as the main hunter in the makeshift society that was built by little boys. As the story developed, the makeshift society has fallen into 2 leaders, Ralph and Jack. Ralph builds his power of authority to enforce his role while Jack does not like their engagement, leading to a different society with Jack as the leader. Convenient for Ralph and Jack to act independently on their engagement without noticing their emotions toward one

Greed is seen as selfish, possessive, focused on money, and many more of what this society has to offer. The appearance of greed cannot be fully comprehended at the moment of the situation. Hinduism, a religion practiced all around the world but originated from Asia, views greed in a very special way. Holding greed in Hinduism, makes that person separated from happiness. One can never achieve satisfaction and happiness when greed is their human nature. The beginning of the test for greed has started at the foundation of life. A mother, a student, or a toddler does not matter when greed is the question. A mother walking down an aisle sees a 20$ bill dropped by a teenager and the teenager does not witness the missing 20$. The moment of putting that 20$ back into her pocket for herself is the representation of her nature, she holds greed amongst her other natures. Her environment may have raised her to do so, but her nature is built from that environment to hold the essence of greed. Other leaders of the world hold greed to power. For example, the Israeli government holds their greed over land to control people and gain wealth. Society disapproves of their greed and helps the victim, but it is not a simple matter of help, it is a union to stop a single nation’s greed. That greed found death, found wealth, and found the eradication of line the human nature once