Humankind urges to suppress their savage instincts, but no matter how structured a civilization they may be a part of, one cannot escape something that is born in them and all those that surround them. The book Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, portrays a group of school boys who are stranded on an island when their plane crashes. As they struggle to survive, they progressively lose their innocence. In chapter nine, Jack and his tribe throw a party with all the boys on the island except for
What happens to man’s ideas when rules disappear? Which areas of personality prevail, and which crumble in the absence of civilization? William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explores this idea through a group of British schoolboys who crash-land on a deserted island. They quickly compensate for the lack of adults by electing a chief, Ralph. However, a group of boys led by Jack succumb to their primal instincts and decide to become savage hunters. Soon enough, most of the boys follow their example,
intrinsically good or evil. Philosophers and authors alike, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, have pondered this question, yet it remains unanswered. Although William Golding and Kahlil Gibran address the existence of good and evil in humans in their respective works, Golding emphasizes the transition from good to evil in Lord of the Flies as both a physical and mental transformation, while Gibran asserts a positive view in “The Prophet”