Human Nature Is Indefinitely Evil In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Why Human Nature is Indefinitely Evil
William Golding’s Lord of the Flies gives readers a look into the truth about human nature. In Lord of the Flies, Golding portrays through the novel that human nature is evil. Savagery and selfishness are just a few of the reasons, along with historical events from the past, that support the idea that human nature overall is not “good” eventually.
In Lord of the Flies, Golding writes about how a group of boys get stuck on an island due to a plane crash and because of that, must learn to survive on their own. In the beginning of the novel, all the characters meet each other, making their introductions. Jack, one of the more self-centered boys, made it his goal to immediately start picking on Piggy, highlighting

"For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again” (chapter 1, page 21). This quote resembles how easy it was for the boys to exclude Piggy from the group, showing their evil nature. This was just the very start of how evilness came over Jack and the other boys as they also laughed along with. Golding uses the metaphor that the boys were in a circle of sympathy and excluded Piggy to show that it was already natural for the boys to bully Piggy because of the nickname he was given due to his characteristics. Golding’s statement is an accurate depiction of human nature because he uses an example of how evil nature could happen every day, such as bullying. Another example could be because of savagery. This is shown when the boys kill Simon in chapter 9. They do their usual chant, so caught up in their own reality and overtaken by savagery that the so-called “beast” they were killing was just one of their own kind. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (Chapter 9, page 152). This quote highlights the savagery that takes place in human nature. It shows how humans view things as

For example, Snowball, one of the pig characters in animal farm who eventually gets banned from the farm and goes into hiding, is usually blamed for every misfortune that happens on the farm, and all the animals seem to agree with it. This is evil in the sense that the animals are easily able to just jump to conclusions about others without thinking first and then going to harm society. "If a window was broken or a drain was blocked up, someone was certain to say that Snowball had come in the night and done it,” (chapter 7, page 66). This quote shows how quickly human nature is to blame, labeling others as evil. If Snowball were not a traitor to Napoleon, the animals would not start blaming him for things that he did not do in the first place. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (chapter 10, page 112). This quote shows evil nature because it shows how the pigs have the most control over all the other animals on the farm. Since equality is not distributed on the farm, it is unfair to the other animals who work twice as hard as the pigs who do not work at