omplete paradise "Fruit and flower grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture." They came to be here by accident whilst fleeing a world destroyed by nuclear warfare, a world that man had destroyed. Right from the start the boys begin to destroy this paradise, they scar it, they dislodge boulders, they burn it. Golding shows that even the utter destruction of a world still will not teach man to look after his environment. He makes us think about everyday life and shows us how blind man can be, that we can destroy paradise. Golding produces horrifying ideas and concepts about modern society. He shows us just how evil man can be and suggests that this evil is not far beneath the surface of every man. We the readers are made to contemplate the realities within this novel and think about ourselves as a member of modern society. ...
