1. IS HUMAN GOOD OR EVIL?
Lord of the Flies – Final Assessment
By Mini Seong
2. INTRODUCTION
For this questions about HUMAN NATURE, there is no right or
wrong answer. This depends on individual‟s perspective and
different opinions based on their experiences.
3.
4. IDEAS FROM “LORD OF THE FLIES”
• Ralph
- Remained to be civilized and good for the whole
time
- He was the first chief among the kids, who
wanted to be rescued as soon as possible.
• Piggy
- He was the Superego of the book, who
consistently gave advices about how to act like a
good leader towards Ralph.
- He was very smart, and used his intelligence only
for the group‟s advantage.
5. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
• When people were little, they are very pure and honest
to everyone. They usually become dishonest and do
bad things as they grow up and have educations.
• In Korea, there is a proverb that kids do not lie.
6. MEDIA SOURCES
• On September 28, 2011, there was a Korean old lady
who donated about 863,369 USD to ChungBuk
university in Seoul. It was donated as
scholarship, which was same as her first donation 18
years ago. At that time, she donated 2,766,135 USD
to ChungBuk university.
• The whole money were her 30 years saving, which
was earned by her extreme hard-works. She hoped
ChungBuk university will produce many outstanding
individuals, who will contribute on the country.
• http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?
artid=201109281656461&code=950301
7. GREAT THINKERS
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Rousseau was a great enlightenment thinker, who
thought that men is good during 18th century.
• In his early writings, he believed that men is
essentially good when they are in state of „nature.‟
• He viewed that human are becoming evil as civilization
corrupts men.
• In civilized society, men do competitions with other
men all the time in order to achieve their whatever
goal. During the competition, men are corrupted by
knowing how society flows with evil civilization.
• http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html
8.
9. IDEAS FROM “LORD OF THE FLIES”
• Jack
- Was very dynamic in the novel.
- He was just interested on hunting and killing things.
- Leader of hunter group, who drove them to be violent.
• Roger
- Was also dynamic, represented by throwing rocks.
- Wasn‟t able to throw rocks directly toward Henry at
chapter 6.
- But ended up killing Piggy.
10. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
• People learn how to act
as a respectful citizen,
who does not hurt others
as they get educated.
• Smaller kids usually fights
more with small things.
11. MEDIA SOURCES
• 2 years ago, in Korea, there was a huge murder case
called as Kang HoSun case.
• HoSun Kang was 39 years old at that time, and he was
a serial killer who murdered 7 women after rape for 3
years. He killed 3 women who were working in
karaoke, 2 women in university, one housewife, and
one employer.
• While he was stating, policemen said he looked really
excited and proud of himself. HoSun Kang said, he
killed them for no reason, except to satisfy his killing-
day.
• http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid
=sec&sid1=102&oid=262&aid=0000002322
12. GREAT THINKERS
William Golding
• Author of Lord of the Flies, which deeply talked
about the human nature.
• He believed that there is savage inside all
human. Human is born evil, and it is nature of
men that corrupts the civilization.
• In his novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack and Roger‟s
actions symbolizes human savagery.
• He also disagreed with Rousseau, who viewed
that evil civilization corrupts good human.
• http://book-covers.lucywho.com/william-golding-
book-covers-t246040.html
13.
14. CONCLUSION – IS HUMAN GOOD OR EVIL?
• In my opinion, men were
good when they are
little, but slowly corrupted
by evil civilization as they
are educated.
15. • In order to have
- benefits
- good results
- to protect their loved ones
• people notice that they must BE EVIL in order to accomplish what they want.
16. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Hugh. Are You Good or Evil? 2011. Photograph. HughBo. 08 Sept. 2011. Web. 30 Sept. 2011.
<http://www.hughbourne.co.uk/2011/09/08/are-you-good-or-evil/>.
• Kim, Young-Yi. “80-year-old lady once again donated to ChungBuk University | Kyunghyang.com. 28 Sept. 2011.
Web. 04 Oct. 2011. <http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201109282226015 >.
• Shin, Dong A. "Behind Story of Serial Killer HoSun Kang." Naver.com. Naver.com, 25 Mar. 2009. Web. 4 Oct. 2011.
<http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=102&oid=262&aid=0000002322>.
• "Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Philosopher." Lucidcafé Interactive Café and Information Resource. Web. 05 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96jun/rousseau.html>.
• Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein. Lord of the Flies: a Novel. New York: Perigee, 1954. Print.
• Lord of the Flies. Photograph. Lucywho.com. Web. 5 Oct. 2011. <http://book-covers.lucywho.com/william-golding-
book-covers-t246040.html>.
• Ralph. Photograph. Gloster. Web. 6 Oct. 2011. <http://jeffdurfee.glogster.com/ww2v-and-lotf/>.
• Piggy. Photograph. Glogster. Web. 6 Oct. 2011. <http://amybug1126.glogster.com/false/>.
• LOTF Hunters. Photograph. Lacrosse_Forums. Web. 6 Oct. 2011.
<http://forums.insidelacrosse.com/showthread.php?t=166217>.