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Lord of The Flies: Human Nature


"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture,
society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one
takes oneself to be." R. D. Laing British psychiatrist. R.D. Laing obviously
backs up William Golding's point of view that human nature is evil. Human
nature is directly affected by the environment; and is constantly changing due
to the experiences of the individual. Oscar Wilde once said "The only thing that
one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one
quality we can predicate from it. The systems that fail are those who rely on
the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error
of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The
result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result."
Human nature depends upon the environment in which they are immersed. The idea
that children, not humans in......

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