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The Nature of Evil and Its Relation to Social Class and History in William Golding's Novel Lord of the Flies

The thesis focuses on the underlying meaning of William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, which can be regarded as an allegory of true nature of man in the light of recent historical events and man’s history in general. It is a well known fact that human history is filled with social and political turmoils, which reveal the true nature of evil. Golding’s intention was to disclose the negativities of human culture that is divided along social and political lines. The reason for this division lies in the nature of evil, which is inherent to man. Taking this assertion as a starting point, Golding placed a group of British schoolboys on an island in order to shatter the myth of exclusion of evil to a certain nation or a social grouping. They are just a microcosm of the whole human civilization. This nature of evil is a cause for all the atrocities made during World War II, especially regarding the Holocaust, as it is symbolically hidden in the novel.

allegory; violence; atrocity; evil; Nazism

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