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Lord of the Flies: The Personification of Evil
“The only paradise is a paradise lost.” –Marcel Proust. People, even under perfect circumstances, are inherently evil. A plane crashes on a heavenly island, leaving a group of young boys stranded. With no supervision or modern convenience, the boys’ civility slowly decays; they h ....
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.... own it. Like the boys in the story, the island evolves from a untapped paradise to a barren, burnt out piece of land—good to evil.
All the boys, once innocent, are overcome by a savage instinct. What starts as playing turns into hunting; what starts as teasing turns into killing. Piggy, the smartest but ironically most disrespected boy, is an example of the boys’ savage deterioration. Piggy has the brains and the reasoning to be a great leader, but Ralph, the taller, thinner boy becomes chief, “’Let’s have a vote’…’Him with the shell’…’Ralph! Ralph!’” (22). This even ....
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