Of Savages and Innocents In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, it is apparent the author is trying to get across the point that evil is inside of each of us. In all cultural stereotypes, even today, anyone who may be different from the typical American white man can be labeled as savage. Man's original sin is overlooked and all the negative energy is focused on the "evil" differences of other cultures. For example, in …showed first 75 words of 1473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1473 total…how each one of us is completely capable of being savage. Therefore, much like Thomas Hobbes, we see that William Golding, in Lord of the Flies, sees inner evil as such: that without laws governed by a sovereign, there almost definitely will be anarchy and civil war. In this way, Golding could most definitely answer Ralph's question of "why to things go wrong?" with a single phrase; "The evils of original sin dwell within all".