Lord of the Flies: The Personification of Evil “The only paradise is a paradise lost.” –Marcel Proust. People, even under perfect circumstances, are inherently evil. A plane crashes on a heavenly island, leaving a group of young boys stranded. With no supervision or modern convenience, the boys’ civility slowly decays; they hunt and kill with no respect for the island or each other. They regress to savagery, with their characteristics paralleling those of modern man. In his novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses a group of boys and an island paradise to demonstrate the problems of society. Golding uses the setting, an island paradise, to represent the earth and its resources. The littluns overindulge themselves in the fruit and leave half eaten cores on the ground. This wastefulness relates to our greedy cons....

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