Noah Lacey
Mrs. Kirkpatrick
English 10 - period 7
3/13/2023
Our World is More Evil Than Good
“Some people say that they feel that life is meaningless because the world is full of evil and suffering.” (Hutson 1). This shows what people’s perspective is on the evil vs good in the world. In Lord of the Flies, Golding shows how human nature is more evil than good. This stance is an accurate reflection on human nature because of what events took place in Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Nazi Germany/Adolf Hitler.
Golding presents that human nature is evil through various kids on the island. For example, one child that comes to mind is Roger. The text says, “Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock into
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For example an article published by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust says, “The Concentration camps included Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma and Sinti people (known as gypsies), gay men, and people the Nazis considered ‘asocial’ (such as beggars, alcoholics and certain kinds of criminal) (Concentration Camps). The harsh conditions and cruel treatment in these camps resulted in large numbers of prisoners dying, with many being arbitrarily murdered by camp guards. Humiliation and harassment were intended to destroy the spirit of the people held in the camp” (Concentration Camps). This shows how cruel Nazis were to people who were not like the standard German citizen. Furthermore, another example of how evil the Nazis were is the following quote: “The idea that Jews belonged to a different people than the Germans, for instance, caught on. Even Jews who had converted to Christianity were still 'different' because of their bloodline.” (Hitler’s Antisemitism. Why Did He Hate the Jews?) This shows that in the nineteenth century most people in Germany looked down upon Jews, so Hitler could have gotten his views from older German folks. Another example from the same article says, “What we do know is that two Austrian politicians greatly influenced Hitler's thinking.” (The first, Georg Ritter von Schönerer and the second Karl Lueger. The hatred that these two men shared for Jews