The Lord of the Flies

        The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding has been described as a study of human nature. The author Mr. Golding writes a story within a time of war about children in a seemingly separate environment who display the same warring instincts of their adult counterparts. Human beings are said to be inherently evil in this way with this inclination towards killing, hurting in a quest for power or other motives. The children deemed innocent and pure by their youth on an isolated island, mirror the behaviour of the grown-ups with evil action escalating to the murder of two boys. This is said to be our natural selves to turn to bad ways outside of civilization and so Lord of the Flies is a study of human nature.
        The boys are deposited on an uninhabited island during an attack of a war. They find only themselves, just children, in this lush, tropical place. There is plenty to eat and by most means comfortable. We the readers think the boys are going to have a grand time, with no adults around and in a paradise. We expect them to play and have fun with no city worries, live simply, but this does not happen. Rules are established in the beginning and are followed, with a boy named Ralph as leader, but this order corrodes as the memory of city-life, civilization, become more distant. The boys seem to revert to their natural, primitive states and soon are chanting, hollering for blood in painted faces. All rules are dispensed with as Jack now leads the boys in fear. They hunt and eat meat and are lost in this frenzy one night and a boy Simon is killed by their hands. Piggy is fatally crushed by a rock mercilessly, and then Jack leads the boys to hunt Ralph. All this behaviour shows that this is our inevitable selves in a natural setting. This evil is in our nature and it is not learned. It is not a force outside us but inside ourselves. This is William Golding's comment on human nature.
        The nature of man is studied in the book Lord of the Flies. Man is said to be evil in nature and this nature is only curbed by civilization, the order and rules. In such a natural setting as the island, a group of boys fulfill this statement as a microcosm of the world at war.
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