Evil In Lord Of The Flies

Evil Within Us Do people in society know why others are innately evil? In society every person has the chance to be evil. This means society has to make laws and civilize people so their children don't become evil. Society has taught people right from wrong like not to take things that aren’t theirs. If people do not listen to what society tells them to do there will be punishments. “What Makes Us Moral” By Jeffrey Kluger explains how humans can be innately good at times and at other times humans can be innately evil within society. In the novel, Lord of The Flies, William Golding shows the reader that people without society or civilization become evil. Even though humans are innately evil, they have the potential of being good with society’s …show more content…
In “What Makes Us Moral” by Jeffrey Kluger as he states “A preschooler will learn that it's not alright to eat in the classroom, because the teacher says it's not. If the rule is lifted and eating is approved, the child will happily comply. But if the same teacher says it's also ok to push another student off a chair, the child hesitates. "He'll respond, 'No, the teacher shouldn't say that.”(Jeffrey Kluger 1). This quote explains how the preschooler parents/guardian have taught him/her the rules and what's good and bad and they also gave the preschooler the right morals too. In Lord Of The Flies, William Goldberg uses Rules to get his point across that the boys still have civilization in them. “Use the conch in assembly meetings. Wait for your turn to talk. Interrupting of the person holding the conch is not allowed. Bring water from the stream and store it in coconut shells under leaves. Keep the fire signal on the mountain going at all times. Use the rocks for lavatory. Using the bathroom in the fruit trees back home that you need rules and laws to be civilized human beings”(135). In society, humans need rules and laws to be civilized human beings. Humans also need to be able to know right from wrong and good and bad. So, when there are no rules chaos erupts. “As the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, …show more content…
A strong sense of community helps with this. The reason some humans do not know the difference is because of our morals. In Jeffrey Kluger’s article, he states “Merely being equipped with moral programming does not mean we practice moral behavior. Something still has to boot up that software and configure it properly, and that something is the community.” (Jeffrey Kluger) Humans are constantly taught to behave correctly and they are even told it at a young age and that's how they learn their own morals. In Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, Roger throws rocks, but purposely misses. “ Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Rogers arm was conditiond by a civiliazation that knew nothin nothing of him and was ruins.” Humans are taught at a young age their morals and that's why William Goldberg shows Roger throwing rocks around Henry. Later, when there is no sense of community, he doesn’t aim to miss and murders Piggy. This can be seen in today’s society too when a sense of community doesn’t exist. People will loot their own communities after a catastrophic event. In Jeffrey Kluger article it states “For grossly imperfect creatures like us, morality may be the steepest of all developmental mountains.” This shows people need constant guidance to be good.

Some humans are often seen as innately evil for example William Goldberg shows how the