The Enmity Of Man In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding reveals, through the characters in his novel, the extent of evil in human nature and the complete dominance that malificence has on this young society of innocent school boys. When an airplane full of english school boys crashes on a remote island, the boys are left alone with the absence of adult guidance and must find ways for survival. The setting seems to …showed first 75 words of 1047 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1047 total…but in many ways has been broken by the shadows of man. Golding closes the novel with the protagonist, Ralph weeping for once was. He is unable to go back to what he once knew. "And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."(202)