Lord Of The Flies Nature Vs Nurture Analysis

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding claims that two impulses exist in all human beings. The desire to live by the rules, and follow their everyday morals and the urge to become savages and hunt to survive. When the children first landed on the island, most of them agreed that order was needed. They all complied at the beginning and established their leader and their rules. Their conch at the island brought order and power to the individual holding it and it became a symbol of authority at the island (Golding 22). Their morals and commendable behavior were abandoned when the conch was shattered and completely destroyed during one of their vicious scuffles. Their only dependence for order and authority had vanished and this is when the trouble began. When the boys savage and immoral behavior begins to unravel at the end of the novel, the reader can identify that these actions and behaviors are being caused by their inadequate and dreadful environment. In my opinion the children were greatly affected by the circumstances they were in and their surroundings. I believe it would be extremely difficult to stay sane in a situation like this. You are stranded in an unknown location, uninhibited and with people you are not familiar with, and as a …show more content…
Powledge discusses many studies in which it is believed that nurture shapes nature, she believes that it is life experiences and the environment that play a role in behavioral changes. Powledge suggests that it is the way one learns that impacts one 's behavior. Powledge used identical twins who are born with the same genes as an example of the different effects that experiences can cause. Identical twins are supposed to be that, identical but even identical twins can suffer different experiences that will eventually make them react differently to equal scenarios, one can be more vulnerable to certain situations because of prior