Shermann Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Many people can be harmed through the acts of evil. It can all begin with the thoughts of fear that are thrust upon one another. From this, it can take away the good in people and it leads them to losing their identity through the process. Similarly, this is shown through not only fiction novels, but also in the real world today. In William Golding's, Lord of the Flies and in Melissa Dittmann’s “What makes good people do bad things?”, they both depict how when man is exposed to fear through a situation, it can make them turn evil and things begin to turn to a state of inhumanity. When dropped into a situation of fear, through Golding’s Lord of the Flies and also through Dittmann’s “What makes good people do bad things?”, both situations
As the hunt for the beast continues the boys are all riled up and ready to kill. The night progresses and the beast rolls down the hill in front of them into the middle of the circle where all the boys are standing. Right when the boys first laid eyes on the beast, “at once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding 2). Coming from a state of fear, the boys are left with nothing else to do but to kill the beast. But the so called beast they attacked and murdered, was actually one of their own boys. But since the boys are so caught up in the act of fear, it leads “themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society” (Golding 1). Killing the beast causes them to lose this fear that they each have. Somehow it makes them feel more safe now that the beast is dead. The evil has taken over each and everyone of the boys and has caused them to act in ways that are inhumane. This similarly is seen in Dittmann’s article as well. People can be seduced into evil. Leaving others feeling dehumanized through the process of labeling them. Zimbardo believes that when “they semantically change their perception of victims, of the evil act, and change the relationship of the aggressor to their aggression--so ‘killing’ or ‘hurting’ becomes the same as ‘helping’” (Dittmann 1). By killing and hurting one another, it leads the one doing the evil acts feel like he or she is helping. Possibly thinking that they are securing themselves and other people through protection. But to go through acts of inhumanity is never the answer. The same thing can be applied to Lord of the Flies as well with the acts of murdering an innocent. Just how the guards at Abu Ghraib are harming and murdering the