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Evil and discord are ineradicable parts of human nature. These attributes will always remain in us, and exploiting them isn’t a difficult achievement. William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies is a thought experiment that explores this concept, and shows just how brutal humans can be; Roger only needs to paint his face to overcome a lifetime of restrictions ingrained into him by civilization. Roger is obviously a natural delinquent, as explored in a small expositional glimpse into his mind. As he throws rocks at a small boy named Henry, he misses him intentionally, as the “Invisible, yet strong… Taboo of the old life” (Golding 62) makes him feel as though there would be consequences for his actions. But Roger is still trying to satisfy a natural bloodlust, and this didn’t evolve from him being on the island; …show more content…
The ambiguity of a uniform can change a person, as seen in countless experiments, including the Stanford prison experiment, but one more expansive has collected data from several cultures, and the data matches Golding’s thoughts, with “Only one of eight Kill[ing], tortur[ing], or mutilat[ing]... If they don’t change their appearance.” (Philip Zimbardo) With the same effect seen throughout the characters in Lord Of The Flies, turing almost all of them into callous savages. They kill simon, who had come to warn them about the beast, and hadn’t fully recovered from a recent seizure. He came to Castle Rock, the capital of Jack’s tribe, and the boys killed him while he was “On his knees… Arms folded over [his] face” (152) while he was trying to hide from the terrible noise of the chanting boys. They attacked him, and left him to die on the beach. Any remorse they may have felt was erased by Jack, who proclaimed it was only the beast trying to play a trick on

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