Manipulation And Prejudice In Lord Of The Flies Essay

Caleb Hefner Mrs. Schonhoff English 10 Honors 4/10/2024 Manipulation and Prejudice in Accordance with Natural Evil Evil is an important concept to address in what it really means and how it relates to the naturally occurring trait of humanity. These theories can be explored in novels and real life to see how people being inherently evil is a concept that can be noted throughout history. In Lord of The Flies Golding is shown to authentically believe that humanity is naturally evil with an insatiable craving for bloodlust, manipulation, and control; through this it is seen that humans are evil within their actions and expression of prejudice and manipulation that causes detriment in the lives of others. Golding describes humanity’s evil through
He is right in this opinion on whether humanity is evil, and this is heavily depicted by the traits of hatred and unethical methods of control through manipulation in the book and in real life. Humans exemplify their natural evil through forms of prejudice found in the discriminatory actions in novels such as Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird, along with real life instances with queer and trans people being hate-crimed for being part of the LGBTQ+ community. In Lord of the Flies, Jack addresses Piggy by saying, “Shut up fat” (Golding 21). From that point on, he was given the name Piggy as a dehumanizing term used to put him down and remind him of how he was inferior to the other boys. This started their intense prejudice toward him based on this one characteristic of his. This was done throughout the book when he was often dismissed, even when he was likely the only logical and sensible person on the island. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Ms. Dubose is depicted as a racist old woman with nothing to do but shout things at children like, “Your father’s no better than the trash he works for!” (Lee
This is done without the consideration that it is harming people under said control. Manipulation is a leading method of persuasion in Animal Farm through various threats, most commonly being, “Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back” (Orwell 21). Squealer loved telling the animals to keep them in line even when the saying made no sense in the context, simple fear mongering. Although Napoleon was an evil leader, Squealer was arguably worse in the way that he manipulated people and brainwashed them entirely. This is also prominent practice in cults in which people experience various manipulations such as, “constant repetition of doctrine, application of intense peer pressure, deprivation of sleep, lack of privacy and time for reflection, complete break with past life, [and] reduction of outside stimulation and influences” (Margery Wakefield). It was found that cults manipulate their followers in such an abusive way. This causes the person who is affected to become so entranced by the lies they’re being fed, the effects of the manipulation become