Human Condition In Lord Of The Flies

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool,"-Albert Camus. The Human Condition represents the ideas, problems, and abilities that people have. People can be capable of great love; but also are capable of hate, torture, rape, and war. The main concern is if humans are innately good or bad. Are humans both good and bad, born with one or the other, or taught to be good or bad? In the fiction dystopian novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, Golding presents his ideas on the human condition. This novel is about a group of young boys fighting for survival when they are stranded on an inhabited island. The boys attempt to organize themselves with rules and order. They soon face hardships which …show more content…
Using the sow 's head for symbolism, it represents the evil in every human 's soul. The description of the sow 's head provides a graphic view of savagery, "dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth," (Golding 137). Golding utilizes the gory details of the sow 's head in order to personify the evil and savagery inside humans. The evil in humans can range from evil in, religion, society, inhumanity, and culture. The sow 's head is a physical representation of evilness because it shows what can result from savagry. Another representation is the conversation between Simon and the head, " ' There isn 't anyone to help you. Only me. And I 'm the Beast... You knew, didn 't you? I 'm part of you? '" (Golding 143). The confrontation between the Beast and last remaining good person, Simon, represents the fight between good and evil. Evil wins when Simon is killed, or when good is destroyed, and the boys on the island slowly start to become savages. After the death of Simon, they started becoming savages because good was no longer there, and they still felt that they need to destroy the beast. The head also shows how the boys cannot