Lord Of The Flies: Human Nature

Lord of The Flies: Human Nature


       "We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture,

society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one

takes oneself to be." R. D. Laing British psychiatrist. R.D. Laing obviously

backs up William Golding's point of view that  human nature is evil. Human

nature is directly affected by the environment; and is constantly changing due

to the experiences of the individual. Oscar Wilde once said "The only thing that

one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one

quality we can predicate from it. The systems that fail are those who rely on

the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error

of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The

result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."

Human nature depends upon the environment in which they are immersed. The idea

that children, not humans in general, are swayed by the ideas and actions of

their parental figures is also a central idea of the book, "The Lord of the

Flies" by William Golding.


        Because of the war in England where the boys were from their human

experience was one of war. If there was no war going on in England at the time

they were evacuated from England, there would've been no deaths, no Lord of the

Flies, and certainly no beast. Because if they had came with a good human nature

then how would there have been a beast which Golding classified as the basic

evil inside all of us. Another thing that ties in with this that children try to

copy what they see adults do so if a child sees an adult smoke up or drink then

he may believe that it is okay or it is right because their parents do it. As

George Orwell once said "Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a

child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and the adults are

rarely looking down. Yet no matter what they will always adore, look up to and

love their parents." But as was just said sometimes that can be a bad thing. So

what must we do? Well for starters why not try to teach our children better and

try at all costs to set good examples for our children so that our society will

hopefully be salvaged from the god forsaken wrath of evil.


        Children who's parents smoke have a 40% higher chance of smoking than

children who's parents don't smoke.1 Chances are it is a mix of two things,

first th
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