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Lord Of The Flies: Animal Instinct - College Papers

Lord Of The Flies: Animal Instinct

What would life be like without a mother or a father? What would life be like
without any adult supervision? How would a person act if they did not have
society to tell them what is right and wrong? Author William Golding believes
that a person that wasn't brought up by society would only act using their basic
human nature. It is also a part of his believes that this nature is evil. In
his novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding proves his ideas on the evil at the base
of the human nature through the lives of Piggy, Ralph, Roger, and Jack, whom are
all young boys trapped on a deserted island in the Pacific. Piggy was a
nonathletic, fat child with glasses and asthma. He was the child who ...

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thinking about him.” In this it is obvious that
Piggy is scared of Jack, so much so that he thinks about him constantly and now
he has him figured out. This is why Piggy is unaffected by his evil. He sees
what is happening to everyone else through Jack. The other person who wasn't
overcome by their evil is Ralph. Ralph was an older child, and he was an
athletic born leader. He was the leader of the tribe until the children began
doing what Jack said. Although he never completely surcame to it, Ralph was
tempted by evil. One instance happened when Jack and his hunters came back from
a hunt and began to dance. The story on page 75 says, “Ralph watched them
enviously and resentful.” He was envious of the other children because they got
to dance and chant, but he knew that it was wrong, so he did not join in, and
during this time while he was being tempted he treated Piggy terribly. He
began to do what Jack said. Once when Jack brought the meat back from one of
the hunts he ...

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Added: 12/9/2004 12:25:09 PM
Category: Book Reports
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