Fear in Lord of the Flies
Lord of the flies is a very meaningful book. It has a lot of meaning to our real life that we live today. The themes of the book are very interesting and have a lot of meaning to them. Some of the really great themes are fear, civilization vs. savagery, loss of innocence and many more. Fear is something that we don’t want to accept in our lives, but it is still there. It always will be even if you think it is not. Those boys also have a fear. They have a fear of the beast, the adults. The fear leads them to killing because they think it gives them power. They look for the beast that they fear of, but really they fear of themselves, of the beast that is actually in them. That’s what they need to conquer the beast in them and not look for something else. They also have the fear of adults. They want to be powerful and not rule by anyone else. Piggy was the one closest to an adult so they let their all anger on him and treated him really badly, and
Human Nature
Many people have pondered the question "what is basic human nature?" Many ancient philosophers have written on this topic, and their ideas differed greatly. Debate on which view of human nature is correct has raged for centuries, with no winner so far. Human nature is such a sensitive issue because it helps to define morality and savagery. William Golding's story Lord of the flies, has added much to the ongoing debate over human nature, because it speaks a lot on the topic of human nature. Reading Lord of the Flies, one gets an impression of Golding's pessimistic view on human nature, that humankind is inherently evil. I think that way as well for it is so simple to observe in the novel how easily society can collapse and how self-destructive human nature can be once the constrains of civilization are gone. To my mind Golding is doing his best to illustrate that theme in the novel.
At four major points throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding has the characters become gradually more and more evil. The pig's
Human Nature
Many people have pondered the question "what is basic human nature?" Many ancient philosophers have written on this topic, and their ideas differed greatly. Debate on which view of human nature is correct has raged for centuries, with no winner so far. Human nature is such a sensitive issue because it helps to define morality and savagery. William Golding's story Lord of the flies, has added much to the ongoing debate over human nature, because it speaks a lot on the topic of human nature. Reading Lord of the Flies, one gets an impression of Golding's pessimistic view on human nature, that humankind is inherently evil. I think that way as well for it is so simple to observe in the novel how easily society can collapse and how self-destructive human nature can be once the constrains of civilization are gone. To my mind Golding is doing his best to illustrate that theme in the novel.
At four major points throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding has the characters become gradually more and more evil. The pig's