Violence In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

Regression of human nature leads to violence. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes believes that humans are “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” at their most basic level. He argues this phenomenon in his landmark work, Leviathan, which displays his ideal commonwealth as one ruled by a sovereign power who suppresses rebellion to avoid loss of order and ultimately loss of civilized nature. This philosophy occurs in other literary works. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are stranded on a tropical island in the midst of a war. The two of the boys find a conch and use it to call the other boys. The conch begins bringing order to the group, but eventually fails. Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding uses symbolism of the conch