animal instinct

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

Animal InstinctWhat 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 was least effected by the evil inside of himself Piggy was also the most intelligent child on the island, and this intelligence is what kept him from giving in to his evil This intelligence was also thought by Jack to be a threat Piggy lived in fear of Jack because he knew what type of person

he was and that he could not be trusted On page 93 Piggy expresses his fears by telling Ralph, "I'm scared of him and that is why I know him

If your scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop 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 gave everyone a piece except for Piggy, and when he complained Jack screamed at him, and instead of standing up for him as he did before Ralph sat quietly and gnawed on his meat At the beginning of chapter 5 Ralph takes a walk, and he begins not only to realize that the way he has been acting was wrong, but also to realize how life should be lived At the beginning of the walk he was starring at his feet and was troubled by life Then he realizes that his problem was that he was starring at his feet When he began to look at the path in front of himself he began to think more

clearly Just as he did on the path, he finds that in life you should always face forward After that, Ralph saw life more clearly and overcame that temptation from evil Ralph lived to be the sole survivor of the island that was not overcome by evil.Roger was one of the hunters that followed Jack from the beginning He becomes almost totally driven by evil At first Roger was a quiet boy He barley even sputtered out his name when

he was introducing himself Jack took him in though Every time that Jack went to do something Roger was right there with him Jack probably picked him because he was so shy and quiet He wanted someone who would follow orders and not ask questions, but Roger became more than that though He not only followed Jack's orders, but he followed the

orders of his primitive instincts Roger in following his instincts killed Piggy When he did killed him it was for no reason at all.Jack was the leader of the hunters The hunters were the evil children He was also the first child to become uncivilized or evil He wasn't always the evil child though Near the beginning Jack and Ralph were friends or at least friendly It was at the point when the tribe decided to choose a leader that he became the uncivilized and evil Jack On page 23, the book says that, "Jake and Ralph smiled at each other with a shy liking." This came just after Ralph decided that Jack would be in charge of the choir, whom would all be the hunters Through the boys hunting they became less human and began to turn into their animal selves Jack was the worst of all at this He would get down on all fours and sniff the ground and

wallow in the dirt Another thing he did was he painted his face This was

a symbol of him losing his identity, and become an animal without

passion, thoughts, or even a soul When Roger killed Piggy he was not a child He was not a man He was an animal He didn't have the

capability to think or reason When he killed Piggy, Roger was operating

on pure survival instincts He was like a wolf or a bear In the end

Golding proves that at our base we are just wild animals driven to evil by our instincts