![]() ![]() Golding's underlying argument is that human beings are savage by nature, and are moved by primal urges toward selfishness, brutality, and dominance over others. The makeshift civilization the boys form in Lord of the Flies collapses under the weight of their innate savagery: rather than follow rules and work hard, they pursue fun, succumb to fear, and fall to violence. In Lord of the Flies, Golding argues that human nature, free from the constraints of society, draws people away from reason toward savagery. By leaving a group of English schoolboys to fend for themselves on a remote jungle island, Golding creates a kind of human nature laboratory in order to examine what happens when the constraints of civilization vanish and raw human nature takes over. William Golding once said that in writing Lord of the Flies he aimed to trace society's flaws back to their source in human nature.
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