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Lord Of The Flies Theme Essay

Describe an idea that interested you in the text. Explain why this idea interested you.

An interesting idea in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” is that man is inherently evil. This is interesting because Golding uses schoolboys to portray the idea, which is to show us that no matter what age or social class, given the chance, the primitive and savage nature of man will emerge.

On discovering their situation the boys go about trying to form some social order and a system of leadership. From this act we learn that the boys are still bound by the invisible force of the “taboo of the old life”, which held them within the boundaries of acceptable behaviour. However the boys eventually realise that mistakes and wrong-doings go unpunished as there was nobody with enough authority to punish them. The rein of civilisation was broken when this discovery was made, the beginning of an anarchic society had been established. Jack is the leader of this defiance for rules and......


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