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Lord of the Flies and Human Nature

pig. They don’t just stab it to death and get it over with, but carry on deranged acts like taking a stick sharpened at both ends, with one side in the ground and the other for the pig to be impaled on. They take joy in the blood of the pig and show odd sexual hunger when they sodomize the pig with a stick. Further in the book, in Chapter Ten, Golding shows how immoral people can be that they’d go against their own kind. This is shown when Jack and his group retaliate against Piggy’s anger of the signal fire going out. Jack and his hunters raid Ralph’s camp, taking the fire and stealing Piggy’s glasses. Then when Piggy and Ralph go to confront Jack and his group, all hell breaks loose. What occurred at that point was the ultimate of evils shown in the book. Shortly, the two chiefs break into a fight which ends in a draw. Moments later, Piggy stands and tries once again to bring the two groups together by saying, “Which is better— to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”. Roger responds to that question by rolling a boulder down a hill, which strikes Piggy, hurling him off the ledge and leading him to his death. Further more at that point, Jack and his group decide to go after Ralph. After many attempts by Jack’s group to murder Ralph, they all end up being discovered by a navy officer and picked up. With this ending, Golding was able to show how the real world was really evil. There were these corrupted young boys, being saved by supposed civilized beings, though, when in fact the Navy crew is in a war, which kills others.In closing, Golding’s, Lord of the Flies has really shown an interesting view of human nature. With the array of characters and their viewpoints, this book was able to be molded into what is considered a great masterpiece that thought people a lesson about human nature and its evils....

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