Essays on Lord of The Flies

“The Lord of the Flies” is a novel which William Golding created to explain the true nature of the human mind, primitivity, and ethics. William Golding utilizes many characters to show differences between individual mindsets and ethics. One of these characters is Piggy, who is...

William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies,” conveys the essence of human nature through an allegory of a group of boys stranded on an island. Eventually, this group of boys turn against each other in an attempt to survive. Given the circumstances, Golding illustrates the...

Thomas Hobbes, in his book describing the structure of government and society Leviathan, depicts the human experience to be “A condition of war of everyone against everyone.” Left cynical about man’s goodness due to his experience in World War II, Golding’s Lord of The Flies,...