6B Human Nature by Catlin Tucker

Haleigh Garcia-Dean

2013-10-23 21:33:39 UTC

William Golding's views on humanity and human nature is negative, and it's explained well in the quote, "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" (Golding 143). This represents the evil that lives within Simon, and the rest of the boys as well. It's the evil that lives within them that comes out when they are forced to revert to savage ways to survive. Little known, Lord of the Flies is another name for the Devil, who in folklore is known for making humans savages, and tempting them to create chaos and disorder. The "Lord of the Flies" is who Simon was speaking to.

Katelyn Dodge

2013-10-23 21:33:48 UTC

William Golding seems to view human nature to be evil. Jack represents the evil of human nature, Ralph even announces, "'You're a beast and swine and a bloody, bloody thief!'" (Golding 179). Jack and his hunters all do everything that considered evil in this world, they commit theft, destroy their tribes fire, and even murder. This represents the whole feeling of evil human nature Golding wants us to see, but it is all bottled up in just a few characters.

Ashley Golding

2013-10-23 21:34:08 UTC

Williams Golding's view of human nature is humans are naturally evil. One character in the book, Jack, is a great example of Golding's thoughts on humans being evil. Ralph even states, " 'You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!' " (Golding 179

Emma Donoho

2013-10-23 21:34:12 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature seems to be that humans are naturally evil. This is shown in The Lord of the Flies, "'You're a beast and a swine and a bloody bloody thief!'" (Golding 179). He thinks that human beings are beasts and are naturally evil.

Aubree Lujan

2013-10-23 21:34:32 UTC

William Golding seems to think humans tend to be evil and selfish. This is shown multiple times throughout the novel, but it is particularly prominent in the scene when Simon is speaking with the Lord of the Flies. In this scene, Simon hears the pig's head saying "You knew didn't you? I'm part of you? " (Golding 143) This statement from the pig clearly shows that Golding believes that evil is in everyone. In the book, Jack is also uses as a symbol of human kind's inner selfishness. throughout the book, Jack does many selfish things, but in the disturbing scene of Piggy's death, his inner selfishness is extremely visable. Instead of being sad or even shocked that Piggy died a gruesome death Jack shouts "I'm chief!" (Golding 181) Jack's selfish nature mirrors Golding's beliefs of human nature

Cassie Howard

2013-10-23 21:34:51 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature are probably evil considering in his book the boys are centered around the fact that their own evilness is making them go crazy. The Lord of the Flies can see that the boys are loosing their minds when he says "You are a silly little boy, just an ignorant, silly little boy"(Golding 143). Golding basically has the boys in the novel fighting because they are frustrated and are getting scared of what might come in the near future.

Charles Sparacio

2013-10-23 21:35:21 UTC

William Golding's views on human nature are that humans are inherently good. Only when presented with fear and panic does our evil really come out. "'He says he saw the beastie, the snake-thing, and it will come back tonight' 'But there isn't a beastie'" (Golding 36). Normally Ralph would not have screamed at a scared small child but, when presented by his own fear and panic his evil side came out.

Merlynne Godwin

2013-10-23 21:35:25 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature seems to be fairly negative. This is shown various times throughout the novel, but is especially evident in a conversation Simon has with the Lord of the Flies. During this scene, Simon hears the Lord of the Flies, a pig's head on a stick, saying "You knew didn't you? I'm part of you?" (Golding 143) When Golding writes this, it expresses the idea that a beast lives in everyone, implying that human nature is evil.

Lindsay Tucker

2013-10-23 21:35:29 UTC

Williams Golding's view of human nature is that all humans are naturally evil. We see this in the conversation between Simon and the Lord of the flies when the lord says,"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!"[Golding 143]. He is saying the beast is inside us we have evil in us and you can not hunt it or kill it, it is a part of us.

Adair Sarasy

2013-10-23 21:35:32 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature is that he wants to show how humans react after they reach a certain amount of chaos without any order to keep them from sanity. When humans do not have order in their lives, they begin to stress out and when they don't do anything about it their savage side begins to show through. "'They didnt take the conch' 'I know. They ddint come for the conch. they came for something else'" (Golding 168). When the group split into two chaos began because they didn't have enough supplies to survive, so they began invading each others camps.

Michael Whipple

2013-10-23 21:35:38 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature seems to be that all humans are naturally wicked under their skin. In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William golding, he proves his point by saying in this quote,"'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?'"(Golding 143). Golding is proving that when humans loose control they become naturally wicked because that's who they are inside.

Emily Tenorio

2013-10-23 21:35:39 UTC

In William Golding's view of human nature is that we are naturally evil. Our instinct is to be on alert, to act very malicious

so that we can scare our predator away. One example is when the hunters wanted to hunt and kill the beast, "Bollocks to the rules! We're strong-we hunt!

If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat-! (Golding 91)

Muriah Licea

2013-10-23 21:35:46 UTC

William Golding views human nature to be naturally evil. In the novel Lord of the Flies a group of young boys are

isolated on an uncharted island. From being secluded for a long period time many boys revert back to their

barbaric ways, " Then dog- like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped" (Golding48).Jack is soo obsessed with hunting that he begins to act like an animal.

James Brady

2013-10-23 21:35:53 UTC

William Golding's views on human nature seem to convey the idea that humans naturally have an evil side to them. This is evident in his novel The Lord of the Flies, when he portrays the characters of Jack and the other boys as being savages, obsessed with violence and hunting, making any hope of order seem impossible. Golding seems to make the so-called Lord of the Flies not just something that scares the boys, but that admits to being inside each and everyone of us. "You knew, didn't you. I'm part of you." (Golding 143).

Katy Tracy

2013-10-23 21:35:55 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature seems to be that all humans are naturally wicked and barbaric. "' He's going to beat wilfred.' 'What for?' Robert shook his head doubtfully "I don't know. He didn't say'"(Golding 159). The boys quickly went to this savage way of thinking. All they want to do is hunt and play and nothing else.

Dylan Eddy

2013-10-23 21:35:55 UTC

William Godling's view on human nature appears to be that all humans are inherently evil. It was even stated in his book, "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill...you knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close!"(Golding 143).

Ashley Parcher

2013-10-23 21:35:55 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature

seems to be that humans are naturally evil.

This is shown in Lord of the Flies when the

boys in his book are surrounded by their

own evilness which makes them go crazy.

"You're a beast...!" (Golding 179). He believes

that humans are beasts created by their evilness.

Vincent Vaishville

2013-10-23 21:35:59 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature seems to be that we, as humans, are all naturally evil. Based on his novel, The Lord of the Flies, William shows that the boys are naturally evil when Jack attempts to stab Ralph, "Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph's chest with his spear" (Golding, 177). He shows them as being so naturally wicked that they even have the incentive to kill one another.

Anthony Spallino

2013-10-23 21:35:59 UTC

In the novel, Golding shows that he believes humans

are naturally evil. Having titled the novel Lord of the Flies,

Golding used this part to show his beliefs, "'You knew it

didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the

reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?'"

(Golding 143). This scene would have had no point had

the author not said what he said in this scene.

Brandon Mallie

2013-10-23 21:36:16 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature seems to be that all humans are naturally evil. The children's evil shows when they try to kill each other. Jack tries to stab Ralph, " Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph's chest with his spear" (Golding 177). He thinks that them being confined on an island by themselves, that they will have the incentive to kill on another.

Ty Shimizu

2013-10-23 21:36:32 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature is an evil or dark view in the novel, Lord of the Flies. Golding's view on the human nature is dark because when the children were dancing in the rain, they ended up killing one of their friends,"That was Simon You already said that before Piggy Uh? That was Murder"(Golding 156). The view on the human nature at the author's point of view is a dark or evil one because in the book the children murdered Simon.

Dante Dondero

2013-10-23 21:38:07 UTC

William Golding, throughout the book Lord of the Flies shows that the devil is in all of us and that human chaos is created and necessary to society. Without chaos created by us there would be no reason to create or be in a group of people for safety in our common era. " Fancy thinking the beast was something that you could kill" "You knew didn't you? I'm a part of you? Close, close, close!" (Golding 143) This quote shows us that the beast is us.

Stearn Brianna

2013-10-23 21:42:15 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature seems to be that all humans are inherently evil. The conversation between the beast and Simon is a great example. '''You knew didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, Close, Close!'''(Golfing, 143). This shows that the evil, which is represented by the beast, is in Simon. It is showing that the evil is in humans.

Trighton Warren

2013-10-23 21:42:18 UTC

William Golding's view on human nature is most likely a bad one based on the boys becoming insane from the evil that they all have. This is clearly shown when Simon is speaking with the Lord of the Flies. In this scene, Simon hears the pig head say to him, "Fancy thinking the Beast was something that you could hunt and kill!" (Golding 143). This is stating that you can just kill and get rid of the evil inside of you. It will always be there because it is a part of you.

Sara Tracy

2013-10-23 21:42:25 UTC

William Golding's views human nature as naturaly evil. He shows this in his book Lord of the Flies, when Simon is talking to the pig head or the lord of the flies "' You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?'" (Golding 143). Golding is saying that that the beast is not an animal it is something that lives in everyone it is what drove Jack to leave and what made them want to hurt people. Every person has evil built in them, we all have a demon within .

Sierra Pell

2013-10-23 21:45:04 UTC

William Golding's perspective of human nature leans wildly toward the opinion that humans are naturally horrible beings with no actual empathy for each eachother. "'Piggy.' 'uh?' 'That was Simon... Piggy... That was murder,'"(Golding 156). The boys killed one of their own in the heat of a dance as the rain. They killed without even a thought, they clawed and beat and attacked on of their own. The way Golding portrays these boys shows how much he distrusts humans and expects them to be ruthless, violent, murderous beings.

Annelise Mahr

2013-10-23 21:45:11 UTC

William Golding's view of human nature is evil. " 'Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!'...'I'm part of you' "(Golding 143). Throughout the novel, the boys make decisions that are negative and when Simon talks to the pig's head it says how evil is in everyone which explains why the boys made bad decisions. The boys make bad decisions, because evil exists in all of us and we cannot control it, it is always there.