Evil Entraps EveryoneAmerica is organized, technologically advanced, and easily accessible; Imagine a scenario where our society vanishes out of thin air, leaving humans with only our natural instincts and nature? A similar fictional event occurred in an unknown location on an island, isolating the young boys Ralph, Piggy, Jack and several other children in the novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. Finally, the boys' innocence turns to ferocity when being alone on the island corrupts them and shows how evil man truly is when society fails to keep him in line. Golding is trying to say that man is evil and he proves it to us by showing us kids on an island and how man can become out of control. It is generally said that people are inherently evil and that there is evil in all of us. . In “Lord of the Flies” Golding strongly confirms this theory. From the beginning, Jack begins manipulating the choir to make them more violent. Jack threatens that he will "divide the chorus, my hunters, that's all" (Golding 42). In this quote, Jack attempts to make the altar boys appear more deadly by calling them hunters. Second, Jack begins to exercise his desire for control by disobeying the rules set by Ralph. Jack says “bullshit the rules! We are strong, we hunt... we... we will come and beat, beat and beat,” (Golding 91). Jack once again expresses his desire for anarchy and his hatred for society and rules. This quote is significant because Jack begins to demonstrate excessive control over the boys when they brutally beat Wilfred. Ralph begins to become brainwashed when he finds no problem assisting Jack in “[beating up] Wilfred… He didn't say for what. Jack got angry and made us tie him up” (golding 176). This quote shows that... middle of paper......the narrative reinforces the theme, the inevitable ability of man to do harm, no matter who. Overall, evil exists in all of us in different doses. Some people may express evil more openly than others, like Jack, and others may keep their evil under lock and key, like Ralph. Both characters are very young but have an evil capacity equal to that of a full grown adult, maiming and killing their peers. Their adult counterparts simply express their evil on a larger, more global scale, such as the war in full swing during their time on the island. Golding does a great job of making you compare the children on the island to adults fighting a war, and the intense influence of the adults on the children makes it seem okay to maim and kill their fellow peers over simple differences. Finally, evil is both intrinsically developed and also developed by the influences around the subject.