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Essay / Lord of the Flies - 519
In 1952, Golding wrote a classic novel, Lord of the Flies, and shows that people are born evil. In this novel, William Golding proves his point by writing this novel, while Jean Jacques Rousseau thinks the opposite of Golding. Rousseau believes that people are born naturally good and pure, but that it is society that makes and transforms some people into villains. The novel Lord of the Flies begins with a plane crashing and the young boys are the only ones to survive. They must create their own "government and rules" and the boys must create their own society and survive until someone comes to rescue them. For a while they all behave well, but then it becomes chaos and shuts down their society and not following their own rules. In my opinion, I should agree with Rousseau, because he thinks that man is naturally good and pure and that society corrupts man. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28, 1712 in Geneva and died on July 2, 1778 in France. He was an important philosopher of the French Enlightenment. Rousseau had beliefs that man is naturally born pure and good, but society is the reason....