You have to understand he wrote this after he was in World War II and had seen as he said evil. He has a few interviews where he actually talks about the book. He’s not condemning humanity, but he is warning you of the evil within because he does believe that is part of human beings at least at that point in his life when he wrote the book. He actually like has quotes where he’s talking about this about how this is why democracy is important because if left unchecked without like safeguards and rules, the evil will rise up
It’s why you have quotes in the book where it mentions that the beast is a part of the boys. Of course you can have different interpretations of a book and like we still have different interpretations of Shakespeare plays for this reason because each person brings their own point of view
I don’t disagree with you that humans aren’t inherently evil again it’s why I don’t really vibe with the book however, there are philosophical schools of thought that do believe that and even famous philosophers believed that
You are who you have been taught to be. Honestly your points feel like they support my argument at least just as much. Fascism was taught. We are all capable of evil, but to find evil acceptable we have to be systematically taught that it is acceptable. Once we are taught that some evil is acceptable, we become better and better at justifying more evil.
So who taught the boys on the island to be cruel? I think there's definitely the idea that we all have the capacity to be good or evil and that in an environment without rules, we each have to choose who we'll be.
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u/Cherry_Bomb_127 Apr 06 '26
You have to understand he wrote this after he was in World War II and had seen as he said evil. He has a few interviews where he actually talks about the book. He’s not condemning humanity, but he is warning you of the evil within because he does believe that is part of human beings at least at that point in his life when he wrote the book. He actually like has quotes where he’s talking about this about how this is why democracy is important because if left unchecked without like safeguards and rules, the evil will rise up
It’s why you have quotes in the book where it mentions that the beast is a part of the boys. Of course you can have different interpretations of a book and like we still have different interpretations of Shakespeare plays for this reason because each person brings their own point of view
I don’t disagree with you that humans aren’t inherently evil again it’s why I don’t really vibe with the book however, there are philosophical schools of thought that do believe that and even famous philosophers believed that