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    Roger from The Lord of the Flies is symbolic to the devil. When him and the others are acting as if they are hunting a pig‚ he and the others start really hurting Robert. He sticks a stick up a pig’s butt. Roger and the others beat Simon to death. Roger and the others had just chased after a pig‚ and Ralph was showing the boys how he threw the spear at him. Robert snarled at Ralph‚ and they all starting jabbing him. Robert was acting as if in pain until he was really in pain as Roger‚ and the

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    World War Two‚ he saw how destructive humans can be‚ and how a normal person can go from a civilized human beings into savages. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily society can collapse. Throughout the story Golding conveys a theme of how and where self-destructive human nature can lead us to be. Many different parts of human nature can all lead to the collapse of society. Some of the aspects of human nature Golding plugged into the book are; destruction

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    LORD OF THE FLIES What is human nature? How does William Golding use it in such a simple story of English boys to precisely illustrate how truly destructive humans can be? Golding was in World War Two‚ he saw how destructive humans can be‚ and how a normal person can go from a civilized human beign into savages. In Lord of the Flies‚ William Golding uses the theme of human nature to show how easily society can collapse‚ and how self-destructive human nature is. Throughout the story Golding

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    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies shows how immoral human nature is by revealing the malignant actions of the boys. When there is no watchful eye over children‚ misbehaviors are not kept in check. They can ruin simple beauties because they have little sense of what true beauty is. Defects in human nature can be the causes of savagery among children. They are not trustworthy on their own and Golding shows that through the boys. They cannot function on their own because they have the capability of

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    2014 Human Nature of Mankind There are certain aspects of society that are questioned‚ and some of which‚ cannot be easily rationalized or clarified completely. An example of this would be the contemplation of the human nature of mankind. The question lingers‚ and is often examined in attempt to determine if mankind is originally good‚ or evil. Different opinions arise through a vast range of viewpoints pondering this topic. William Golding wrote the novel‚ The Lord of the Flies with intention

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    central theme in the novel Lord of The Flies‚ by William Golding‚ is that all mankind is inherently savage and the only aspect suppressing man’s primitive behavior is the moral influences of civilization. It is society that holds everyone together‚ and when rules‚ values‚ and consensus of right and wrong are absent‚ a moral surrounding no longer influences one’s actions. Thus‚ values‚ reason‚ and the basic understanding of morality are lost‚ and the true essence of human nature is revealed. The regression

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    Lord of the Flies: The Nature of Man William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a gritty allegory of adolescence‚ innocence‚ and the unspoken side of human nature. Countless social issues are portrayed‚ however one of the most reoccurring is the nature of man. Throughout the novel there is an ever-present focus on the loss of innocence amongst the boys‚ shown by the deterioration of social skills and their retrogression into a barbaric form of society. Also portrayed is the juxtaposition of a cruel

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    In life‚ there are a lot of things that hold people back from doing what they want to do. One of the major things is the laws of society. William Golding’s novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ illustrates what would happen without society. The boys’ behaviors change significantly throughout the novel. The boys carry their civilized behaviors with them to the island but‚ as time goes by without society‚ those behaviors are lost. When the boys are first dropped off on the island‚ they still have their civilized

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    Lord of the Flies: Can the nature of humanity change us? In the novel‚ the plane has crashed into a mysterious island with the boys realizing there’s no adult supervision and must figure out a way to take care of themselves in the meanwhile. According to Lord of the Flies where you can state one character represented civilization and the other one savageness. Everyone has different ideas on surviving‚ especially when there isn’t much supplies or support leaders tend to go their own way without needing

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    Golding uses children to make a point about human nature. The question Golding wants the audience to answer is whether human nature is good or evil when it’s left to develop freely. The best way to show this was to have children‚ who haven’t grasped the meaning of moral values‚ live on their own and find out how to survive and make a civilization without knowing the basics of right and wrong. These children are good when observed by adults but when they are left alone and get to pick what controls

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