Lord Of The Flies Morality Quotes

In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, the question of moral and humaneness is very prominent. As the book advances, the boys start to kill one another and become more and more impulsive. The boys weren’t always this way, but when the reality that they weren’t going to get rescued set in, the need for survival kicked also in.
“Something he had not known was there rose in him and compelled him to make the point, loudly and again” (Golding 37). In this quote, it is evitable that Ralph had an urge to partake in savagery, although it’s not in Ralph’s nature to partake in such things. Ralph and Piggy seemed to be the only boys who even tried to stay civilized; they were the two boys who enforced the rules and kept a nurtured mentality throughout the book. “If we assume that the outcomes of human development are out of our control, we will allow the problems of human behavior that have plagued us for centuries to continue” (Biglan),

The child is going to become social because they have to converse with others. This explains that children watch their surroundings and become who they are based on the things around them. When the boys landed on the island they still showed signs of being nurtured, and they still had the views and principles of their society. “They are naive or, in some ways, transparent reflections of something in society -- a certain violence, a certain cruelty. Without filtering, they represent what the society is about” (Sachs). The boys towards the end of the book begin to change. “Just like in war, Jack tries to go by his last name: “'Kids' names,' said Merridew” (Golding 17). They unconsciously start becoming like the outside world that they remember. If they weren’t on the island in this time of history, they might’ve taken different approaches to creating a new life. The nurturing of society caused them to react like “the adults”