In the depths of Lord of the Flies, William Golding's literary texts attribute a perspicuous acuity to the human behavior and morality of young, uncouth humans. However, the story of a fictional novel, a lost division of young English boys for better or for worse, goes through a devastating wave of the Second World War. Kids are thrust onto an uncolonized baseline with only themselves, without mature adults who could potentially play a mandating role among them. Over the course of a few weeks, these kids demonstrate elements of human nature and a set of morality that is beyond civilized humans, as they are placed in a society and environment where no rules or civilization exist; fighting every breath with a hostile, cold, sexual murder on pigs and dishonest actions that lead to permanent and painful residues. Additionally, Jack was struck by the early change in civilization in the novel, “We must have rules and obey them.” . After all, we are not savages" (Golding 42). William Golding's fundamental argument is that people are sa...
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