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William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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Humans appear to be good-natured, but deep down they might be truly corrupt. There are many good acts that humans may perform, but that doesn’t mean they are an honorable person. The Lord of the Flies William Golding claims that human nature is more evil than good. This is an accurate statement because humans can be cruel and power hungry. In Lord of the Flies, Golding claims that human nature is evil. In chapter 9, the boys do a chant as they kill Simon, who they believe was the beast, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat. Spill his blood!” The boys are just children and still were able to state such savage words. Golding is saying that even anyone can be naturally evil or savage. This is an accurate statement. The boys did not act in a savage …show more content…

The boys stuck on the island establish evidence that human nature is more evil than good by being cruel. The main example of cruelness would be represented through Jack. Jack can become aggressive with the other boys when he is angry. LEAD IN OR INTEGRATE “This from piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence.” Jack couldn’t stand the fact that the other boys agreed with each other about how Jack shouldn’t have let the fire go out. This led him to be cruel to Piggy, “he took a step, and was able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach.” (71) Piggy didn’t do anything wrong, but Jack was cruel and punched him in the stomach. After Jack takes his own group and becomes their leader, he becomes even more cruel. Jack had people tie Wilfred up waiting for him to beat them, “He’s going to beat Wilfred” when they asked why Robert said, “I don’t know. He didn’t say anything. He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up.” Jack was taking his anger out on the other kids. Wilfred didn’t do anything wrong, but Jack still beat him. This is another example of Jack being cruel. At an animal farm, the animals didn’t start off as cruel. First the humans were cruel to them, “Yet he is

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