Lord of the Flies Blog Response (300-400 words)

Humans are evil, it's just that simple. We have potential because some of us have consciences(the little person in the back of our heads telling us whats right and wrong).Humans are paracitic viruses. We start off small and harmless but end up causing pain and suffering to other creatures. Humans are like viruses because we use up the earth we live on until its completly dryed up and deprived of the natural resources it priviously had. Aside from that rant, humans are animals, which is why i believe in evolution because when we are striped of our civilized ways we turn to our most primative state, a savage state. But really what is Good and what is Evil? Is murder good or bad? Is Theft Good or is it bad?? You see From a savage's point of veiw laws and rules may be the roots of evil because for one to be bad you have to have a standard to compare them to...the same goes for being good. But from a modern civilized point of veiw savagery and anarchy are the roots of evil becasue they rely survival for themselves and not for others. My next point is that there is no way humans can possibly be good from the start because of how we are always having to teach our kids how to behave or be "good". It we took a baby and left it on an island with food shelter and water, and it grew up on its own with no contact from an other human beings how do you think it would act? well it would probably act like an animal. Now you may not think much of that because you dont look at animals and try to distinguish whether they are good or bad but if you saw a fully grown human acting like so then you migh think he is evil. All of that was said to make this point, it's in our nature to be evil and theres nothing we can do about it excpt try the best we can to hide it and restrian ourselves from the destruction of society. becasue that's evil's goal. to take everything we have and destroy it so that you can become what you were in the begining, an aniaml. In theLord of the Flies, Jack represents the savage in everyone of us. All he wants to do is hunt and play he even ignores Ralph's plan to be rescued by letting the fires go out. Ralph wants to build a camp and have order and peace like any good civilization but Jack's need for blood takes him and his followers father and father away for good and closer and closer to the evil in our soul. Ralph wants to be civilized, piggy want to have order and jack wants to have fun. Jack is only interested the quest for blood, and it is this that gets him the boys in a frenzy. They get so caught up in their frenzy that they attack Simon and kill him out of fear of the beast. Man is evil. They are capable of evil things. They separate themselves from Ralph and give offering to the "beast".An example of someone who is essentially evil is Adolf Hitler. He is a lot like Jack in this story because Adolf killed his way to the top and brainwashed everyone to help. He was an evil power-hungry dictator. Everything he is can be described as evil. We are evil and we alwasy will be. The only way to become good is to hide our primative sides and shun the evil that is inside us all. we have potential, lets see how we use it.