The theme of "The Lord of The Flies" is that humans are born good but also evil at the same time. So, that human instinct overpowers their goods. William Golding demonstrated the cruelness or violence of human instinct. When human falls into crisis or faces the death, they reveal their real instinct to survive. Also, Golding's idea of using boys as his characters were good enough to show the read
ers what the real society is. Children in this book made their own laws. However, some kids break the law and consequence follows. William here is trying to say that any society without laws will fail. Laws exist because humans are not innocent so that it bans human to show off thier instinct. In the present days, teenagers don't care about the laws, in their society, and doesn't know why they are getting punished. Teenagers live their lives by learning what is right or wrong. This theme could teach them about the real society and that they need to learn how to limit their instincts.
3 comments:
It's kind of sad but it is true that humans are born good, but they also have evilness in themselves. I haven't read the book, but it seems pretty interesting just by the theme:)
i agree with this theme and i believe that people are born naturally evil and good. Usually in conflicts or hard time evilness of people come out as well as their selfishness. I basically agree with you.
Fruit of knowledge reference? Good and evil is such a generic theme but a good one nonetheless. I think that the schoolboys were an extreme example of how society functions because most people are mostly good with a couple bad components. Schoolboys who are desperate to survive are hardly good references to governments. They sort of made laws for themselves (the whole conch thing) but they mostly ignored it. Good points even if a couple things are off in my opinion...
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