Year 10 English- Assessment Task 2003 LORD OF THE FLIES ESSAY Lord of the Flies appears to be, a somewhat ill natured story about little boys isolated on an island. In reality it is a horrible story about the general characteristics and feelings of mankind. Being stranded on an island is a situation that can have a severe physical and mental impact on those involved. As the boy's on the island discover, such a situation can lead …showed first 75 words of 3711 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3711 total…and darkness, evil will always find its way through. In our so-called civilised world, training and conditioning from birth are all we can manage to just about keep away extensive chaos and rebellion and have an orderly life. Even then things go wrong but without these continuous safeguards what sort of world would we live in? Simon was right- "...it's only us"(p.111) we are the infection on this planet, the source of all evil.