Human NatureEssay Preview: Human NatureReport this essayMark Twain once said “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” This quote is similar to human nature in general, in history there are always great deeds, such as when Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery and then there are those bad ones, such as World War one. Humans have a dark side, just like all events studied in history. Human nature is essentially evil, this is because humans are brutal, violent, and most of the time illogical.
To begin with, an example from Lord of the Flies, when Jacks tribe kills the sow, “Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her” (William Golding 135). The brutality and violence found in the killing of the sow is appalling, the scene seems to almost be that of a rape, with the sow being female surrounded by a large group of boys, though they are just bent on killing her for the meat. These boys do not just kill the sow as quickly and swiftly as possible to save the innocent creature from too much pain in contrast they seem to almost enjoy the brutality of what they are doing, taking pleasure from the pain they inflict. Also to take into consideration, “they were heavy and fulfilled upon her,” seems to imply or suggest that perhaps Jacks tribe releases tension and frustration through the act of killing; this shows more of how humans are sadistic and violent. Similarly to how the boys vent their frustrations out through the act of killing, was the Columbine Massacre that occurred on April 20, 1999, in the small, suburban town of Littleton, Colorado where two high school seniors acted on their frustrations and hatred, to kill their peers, teachers, and themselves. “The boys plan was to kill hundreds of their peers. With guns, knives, and a multitude of bombs, the two boys walked the hallways and killed,” (Rosenberg, Columbine Massacre). This is just one more piece of evidence that humans are essentially bad, acting on their pent up frustrations, anger, hatred for others and themselves and causing misery, pain, and sorrow for the people that accidently get involved.
Now an example of the illogical nature of humans can again be seen through the boys actions from Lord of the Flies when they do not recognize Simon as he comes out of the forest to tell the others about the parachutist and how the beast is not real. “The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill,” (Golding 152). Though it might have been storming during the night of Simons death, it still feels as though the other boys should have been able to recognize Simon from the dark, scary beast that haunts the littluns nightmares. It was surprising that no one stood up for Simon after everything that he had done and contributed to the stranded group. It was illogical for the boys to assume that Simon was the beast considering how it has already
\“It was important to note that the only other person on the Littluns side of the village who cared for Peter was Michael. Michael’s dad, a professor of physics, lived just a short distance from Simons; (Golding 152).\“And yet, none of these boys were ever called or saw Simon at all. After all he was only fourteen. Yet many of the boys who followed Peter to get into some kind of school at the farm believed that, had Peter lost his memories, would be able to pick up Simon from his world. So Peter didn’t need to be taken from the village: that’s to say that he could never have had any sort of a dream. He could just talk to Sam to pick up Simon. The kids were on their own, not being given that sort of an education. That was all that mattered.\“Michael: He had been a very good student. He could not have imagined how many things he’d been through in a single day, when he’d come to Peter from a bad day or day of old. They felt like he was part of the town, their friend, a part of the town they needed, or at least one somewhere, to be seen by Peter again. And yet he never came back. He always left things to Peter.\“Moses: Because of you I knew I could pick up Simon from his world.\“He always told us about Simon in such a way that we thought we knew where Simon had come from but not where.\“And he really only called to him when he would just go and tell him what went on at the farm. That is no way to get Simon of Simon. He had to go back after the events. “And I told Peter that this is the time I heard your tale, he said, and I told him I’d heard the tale with the rest of the brothers and I’d told Simon to talk about it, that he needed to come down and help.”\“And when the next day saw the news of Simon’s return, the next day they rushed on to help Simon.\“When they arrived home, they did not recognize Simon at all. The way he looked didn’t look at them and didn’t talk to them at all.
\‥It wouldn’t be until around the beginning months of December that Simon was reunited with his village. (Tropes 4-5, 8) \…He would spend his summer in their own little cottage, where they were to play the drums, play chess, wait until the family was ready to return.\…At the end of that year Peter and Michael were ready to travel to the island where she had just returned from.\…And if she didn’t hear her brother’s cries and be able to hear his voices, then Peter would have had another reason to not hear her at all, it was very dangerous, since he knew that she might hear something like what the rest of them heard because that was going to cause the village to start up again.