Lord Of The Flies And Mankind's Essential II Iness

The year of Lo iti of the Flies was published was the time when the world just exnerienced the great chaos; and it was also the time when science could be a substitute for religion; reason was people抯 soverei~ god; reason could solve all the problems of the universe; half of human nature ___the emotional, tnstmcnve. irrational element, the back rather than the front was n-eated simply as if it did not exist. Man has grown away both from nature and himself; he has become his own God. People who live contentedh?immersed in social cate~ones have forfeited what is most precious to man. The world after the Second VVorld War had become a spiritual wasteland where essential selves in.iunt oe muffled and lost. The War taught Goldina that man was morally aisease~ creature and his book was an attemot to trace the connection between man抯 diseased nature and the international mess he got himself into. Wntincm about schoolboys appeared to Golding to be a simple means of nn-mno a iiuht on contemporary human nature. Lord of the Flies was written at a time or areat worjc ~rnef. but that world belongs to history and the book still sneaxs to our conamuon, that?s because the book exhibits the darkness of man抯 heamt not the re~ivorar?malaise of one historical disaster. This is the backmound in which the book was wntten. In the following I抣l briefly present what the book real lv ;eils us I attemnt to araue that the loss of innocence for which Raloh weens at the rinse ot the booL is not a mowing into wickedness. Its tamer me commnc or an awareness of the evil in man抯 heart that was present in the chilthen alone Goidmno抯 concern is to present us with a vision of htunan nature anc aiso toe nature of the world which we inhabit thrauim the expenence or a uroun 01 cnimcren cast away on a desert island. FirsL human beincs have Di7oDenstr~ towara.s cruelty. If we wish to see an image of dark aods or devils, we need 00K no runner tnan children, need only examine the cbastlv and feroctous omav of children, where we see how little devils torture and kill insects for fun. niavng god with flies. No one, Simon avart. is innocent on the island. Even the smallest child seems to have eaten the apple. Littluns enjoy nothing as much as tnro\vlng sand m one anothers eves. 揑nnocent?boy__Johnn拁 s natura. belligerence and Henry抯 absorption in exercising control are basic elements of ntiman nature With Roger. these elements develop into something more serious. even to the killinn tf Piggy. His sadism is only an excessive development of wnat we have seen in Henry and Johnny. revealing itself only because of the absence of grown-un sanctions. Pias are hunted at first, then Simon and Piggy 1 Here a will imposed on an animal has now turned in destructive violence on a fellow human being. So from within and without, we are beset by evil. We are, in Golding抯 words, a species that 憄roduces evil as a bee produces honey.?We produce the wickedness and violence which sour our lives. In Lord of the Flies, the South-Sea island setting suggests everyone s fantasy of locus-eating escape or refuge from troubles and cares, just as Ralph assumes the boys 揼ood -island.?But a conflict quickly develops between the boys led by Ralph and those led by Jack. The rational democracy represented by Ralph is not able to cope well with the fears of the younger boys, the terror of the unexniained be...