Please discuss the influence of environment in Lord of the Flies. I know environment has a great effect on the boys, so does it mean that humans have...

Golding is
asserting in the novel that an innate evil lies buried in almost all humans. It is not
environment in terms of the boys being stranded on a tropical island that unleashes the evil
innate within them, but environment in the sense of the absence of civilizing institutions with
the power to restrain their atavistic impulses.

The novel, published in
1953, is a reflection on the evil that was unleashed under Hitler during the Nazi era. It would
not have been lost on readers at that time thatorganizing the boys into frenzied and warlike
rituals was similar to Nazi nighttime torch lit...