One of the themes in the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is that there is the potential for evil in everyone. In society, this evil can usually be controlled by moral and authoritative boundaries, but in some cases, it can be gradually let out in bursts of immoral activity. As the characters in the novel regressed from their moral boundaries, one character stood out the most: Roger. He represents the worst kind …showed first 75 words of 505 total…

…showed last 75 words of 505 total…capitalizes on the misfortunes and despair of others; it seems to give him a perverse pleasure. Roger's regression from a docile choirboy to a heartless murderer represented the potential for evil in everyone; the moral and civilized boundaries he overstepped were dissolved once his old world was lost. The chaos on the island was an example of how the world cannot survive before the potential for evil exerts itself and destruction is the inevitable outcome.