After the second World War, the perception of Golding on humans began to rotate 180 degrees when he realized that humans are "innately evil". A human being always point out others for being immoral but never examined oneself of being evil himself. In Golding's book, Lord of the Flies, he showed how humans, without society, turns barbaric because of their fears in the island. (McClean, 2010)
McClean(2010) explained how "madness" overrun the young boys' concept of society. The human mind always seeks for an "external enemy", on which case the beast in the novel. Their fear of the beast, fires up the motivation to fight it bringing gradually "violence" into their mindset. This "violence" brought about savagery at first to the killing of pigs, later to the bullying of kids on the island and further more atrocity to the killing of the school boys on the island -- Simon and Piggy. As the story progresses, we can see how the school boys who at first were obedient to the rules and couldn't even harm a pig for their survival, turned into hedonistic creatures who only care about themselves.
Sources:
McClean, J. (2010). Lord of the Flies: A Psychoanalytic view of destructiveness. South Australian Branch of
the Australian Psychoanalytical Society. Available from http://www.aipsych.org.au/articles/
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