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William Golding, in his novel Lord of the Flies symbolically describes the degeneration of a civilized society. Embedded within the story of a group of young boys struggling to survive alone on a deserted island are insights to the capacity of evil within the huma ....

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.... there is a constant struggle for power between two groups and the struggle illustrates man's fear of losing control. The fear of the unknown is natural, the fear of losing power is inherited - Golding uses these vices to prove the point that any type of uncontrolled fear contributes to men's stability and will ultimately lead to his demise spiritually and perhaps even physically. Lord of the flies used changes experienced by boys on an uninhabited island to show the evil nature of man. By using different characters and various events the author was able to portray various types of people found in our society. Their true selves were revealed in th ....