Lord of the Flies

Human nature is born in all of us, it’s constant. It started with the primitive man and Darwin’s Theory of Survival of the Fittest. Politics are something that humans created. The whole idea of society has been created by man. The boys in “The Lord of the Flies” have in a sense taken the evolution of man in a backwards manner. They start out civilized English boys and end up turning into the …

…he is appalled on how the boys turned into these savage people, forgetting about modern civilization and reverting back to prehistoric human nature. But the symbolic democratic civilized fire got them rescued as Ralph intended. The boys will obviously never be the same after their isolated time on the island. Their struggle with human nature and the connection into world politics is quite similar to everyday life in government, the struggle with power and violence.