Stanley Milgram Lord Of The Flies Psychological Analysis

In Lord of The Flies, a group of boys is stranded on a remote island form a microcosmic society that eventually plummets into disarray. Whether this outcome is the product of a biological process in their maturation, or rather an environment-provoked phenomenon, facilitated by their social contributions on the island, that is the question. In this novel, there are lengthy symbolic themes that mostly point to the inherent nature in all human beings. Despite the fact in The Lord of The Flies, the children gradually transform from being civilized to savage and ritualistic, what makes them change isn’t a social effect that the situation or the boys impose on each other, but rather a biological predisposition that is exposed after the degradation of the civilized functions that the boys have been reared on, otherwise known as “nature”. Nonetheless, the …show more content…
In the study when participants were instructed to deliver incremented regimentation of electrical shocks to a receiving participant, for incorrect responses on a memory test. In each case, more cruelty and brutality was exhibited that expected of the average human at the time. Thereby maintaining that in each person there is naturally both good and evil, and the lengthy civilizing that you learn in society can be easily reversed, simply by a change in environment or circumstance, as demonstrated by the adverse situations that the experimenters introduced the participants to. Further proving that while it requires an environmental presence of nurture to offset the conditioning we have received so far, cruelty and savagery would not be possible without a deep basis of inherent evil that resides in humans. Likewise, in The Lord of The Flies the children of the island already possessed an evil along with a good, but due to the domineering nature of Jack and his entourage, the good is snuffed by the animalistic