The novel Lord of the Flies is considered an allegory (a symbolic story with a deeper meaning), where the author’s central claim is that men are savage at heart, and it’s only society that keeps us from killing each other. What do you think of this claim? Are people basically evil?
elliott herr
10/16/2023 03:02:29 pm
all people are born evil, but some can appear better than others. But, we all get our redemption in Jesus Christ, by believing the gospel. when you are changed you start to get better with god's help, but you aren't immediately perfect. So, everyone starts bad, but god's chosen are changed.
sophia
10/22/2023 01:14:31 pm
yes, all people are evil. some people are better than others. still, even if someone is good they do things that they don't know are evil. for example: killing an innocent animal for fun (aka hunting), lying, and hurting the environment without knowing it. someone could be the nicest person who is mature and takes responsibility but still makes bad choices.
Olivia Tangeman
10/22/2023 03:09:41 pm
All people are evil but some act better than others. Sometimes we do things that we don't know are bad. People make mistakes and bad choices all the time.
Elise
10/22/2023 08:08:03 pm
It is really difficult to answer this question, because everyone defines "good" and "bad" differently. Most people judge a person by if they follow the same morals and follow them well, but the problem with that is that everyone has different morals. While if I saw someone hunting for sport, I would probably hate them, but someone else may think it is perfectly fine. Now, to answer the question, I think humanity as a whole is evil. We are selfish, and we destroy and take. That being said, if you look at the individual people, you can see that people are not all evil, nor all good. There are good people, who love others and the world we live in, then there are other people who do not care about anything other than themselves.
Liyahh
10/23/2023 12:49:38 pm
People are a mix of good and bad. They may have been trying to good and it ends up being bad for someone else and people will call them a bad person. Basically people can have good intentions and still manage to do bad. I don’t think anyone is fully bad or fully good. Everybody has different things that they think are bad. Comments are closed.
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