The book, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is based upon his view of humans and human nature. He makes a very convincing argument about human nature. He says that basically all humans have the capacity for good and evil, and human instincts are no different from those of animals. What William Golding is saying about human nature is that at its root it is savage, there are no morals, no right or wrong, …
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…the island. The officer, having interrupted a man-hunt, prepares to take the children off the island in a cruiser which will presently be hunting its enemy in the same implacable way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser? With Lord of the Flies, Golding says that life is a constant fight to keep oneself at the level of civilized people, at a level of decency. Man fights a battle against his inner self.