Lord of Flies: Animal Instincts In the novel Lord of Flies, the author, William Golding feels that when people are left to their own devices, the vast majority will choose irrational evil over reason and order. Irrational evil is something that causes misfortune, suffering, or difficulty. These acts are illogical and done in moments of chaos while reason and order represent doing the things that make sense and are deemed to be the right things by society. People will choose irrationalisms and evil because these involve no work on the person's part. People may also assume that there are no consequences for choosing evil when people are left to their own devices under cha