Evil Comes Easy In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies
Evil Comes Easy
In the lack of society’s rules, war and pain become rampant. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies discusses what would happen in the omission of rules. When the boys are first living on the island, they maintain the order and rules from their past. They begin to create their own society. At the end of the novel, the boys have been reduced to complete savages. Golding shows that evil is a part of everyone, but the structure of society restrains extreme evil.
Throughout the novel, the boys try to embody the evil on the island into a living, tangible object. Their efforts produce a beast from the water, air, and forest, until eventually Simon contributes a bit of wisdom. He suggests that “‘Maybe it’s only us’ … Simon became
In the lack of society’s rules, war and pain become rampant. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies discusses what would happen in the omission of rules. When the boys are first living on the island, they maintain the order and rules from their past. They begin to create their own society. At the end of the novel, the boys have been reduced to complete savages. Golding shows that evil is a part of everyone, but the structure of society restrains extreme evil.
Throughout the novel, the boys try to embody the evil on the island into a living, tangible object. Their efforts produce a beast from the water, air, and forest, until eventually Simon contributes a bit of wisdom. He suggests that “‘Maybe it’s only us’ … Simon became