In the Novel "Lord of the Flies", by William Golding, the Author Shows Through Characterization that Man Is Inherently Evil

Evil in "The Lord of the Flies"
As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." If everyone believes in what Martin Luther preached, then everyone has done something evil in their life. There is evil within everyone, yet some people are better at suppressing it then others. Given the right time and the right situation, everyone can be evil, as in the novel Lord of the Flies.…