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  • Essay / Lord of the Flies - 530

    Golding said that humans were naturally evil and that the rules controlled them. Rousseau said that humans were good, but the rules of society brought out the evil in them. I really like both concepts, but I would have to agree with Rousseau. Humans try to prevent bad things from happening, so it's a bit like karma. Evil breaks the rules and makes humans evil. Golding is somewhat right, but I should follow Rousseau because not all humans are born evil. Some people are born good, some bad, and so on. Rousseau said that humans are generally good at first. Then, when rules are made, people start to get angry with them. They become annoyed and other emotions/feelings begin to arise. Evil begins to control humans. Humans go crazy and rebel as shown in the book. Humans are sometimes bad at first, or so Golding believes. I'm not so sure because every human being is different and normal doesn't exist. It's normally the rules that make people angry with each other and mean. Evil takes revenge on humans because they set rules, which are fundamentally...