Evil Problem Essay Research Paper No one

Evil Problem Essay, Research Paper

.No one who conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit

the human breast and seeks to wrestle with them can expect to come through the

struggle unscathed.. -Dora (Complete Psychological Works) There exists an all

poweful force in this universe that makes man fall into an eternal abyss of

illusion and hell. It is called Maya (Cosmic Illusion) by the Vedanta and

.evil. by the English It wounds the opponent always, many times almost

fatally. It is the most ferocious, wild, and swinish beast in existence.

Sometimes a mere glance at it can provoke it to attack. There is only weapon

that can kill this .evil., that can wipe it away once and for all, that can

triumph over all else: and that is the Highest Good. In Golding.s Lord of the

Flies, through the characters and symbolic happenings, it is shown that in all

being lies this Maya, or illusion which we call evil, and the Highest Good and

if either of these are dove into, astounding effects on the human heart are

inevitable. Golding shows that how even within innocent school boys, there lies

this tremendous force of illusion. As he builds up his novel, he reveals how

evil manifests itself in different ways until it reaches its climactic maximum.

The story can be said to be an allegory of present day society, for evil is not

just in the pages of books but is a reality that affects the world. Golding

makes his central theme very clear when the pig.s skull, which represent evil,

is speaking to Simon. The Beast says, .Fancy thinking the beast was something

that you could hunt and kill!. Evil is not something in gross form that one

can handle by physical means. .You knew, didn.t you. I.m part of you.

Close, close, close!.(143) As Mahatma Gandhi once said, .The only devils in

the world are the ones running around in our own hearts.. With the

manifestation of these devils, our hearts as well as the hearts of others are

scarred more and more. .I.m the reason why it.s no go. Why things are what

they are.,. says the Beast. All of the characters in the book, Ralph, Jack,

Piggy, Samneric, the rest of the biguns, and all of the littluns and even Simon

are injured and .scathed. as they battle a force which they are just

discovering and find no means to fight. Ralph, one of the most important

characters of the novel, is scathed by the .beast. or .evil. as he goes

closer and closer to it and finally confronts it. When he first discovers

himself on the island, which can be compared to the battle ground of the heart,

he stands on his head in a playful mood, innocent and ignorant of the inevitable

war of the future. .Ralph spoke to himself, sounding the bass strings of

delight. .Whizzoh!.. When he takes the role of chief, he understands the

importance of rules and order. However, as he is exposed to the amoral behavior

from most of the biguns, and with no .grown-ups. to enforce order, he gets

his very first glimpse of evil creeping itself into the picture. This first

glimpse starts his endless and progressing helplessness; as without order he

cannot keep the fire burning which is his only hope for survival. Ralph starts

to know evil more prominently when Jack takes Piggy.s glasses. One cxan see

that evil slowly takes control over. little by little, as he finds joy in

participating in the hunt. ..I hit him all right The spear stuck in. I

wounded him!. He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was

good after all . . .. It happens sometimes, that when one is badly cut, one

does not notice it at first, and only afterwards notices it. Ralph notices the

big gash in his heart; the wound that evil left when it possessed him to help in

the killing of Simon. When he is trapped in the forest at the end of the novel,

with savages all around him, he has a stick which is pointed on both sides. This

stick signifies the eternal war of good and evil. .Waht could they do. Beat

him . . . . Kill him. A stick sharpened at both ends.. Ralph is surrounded by

evil and runs to escape with the last bit of goodness as his weapon. When Ralph

is confronted by the officer, he starts wailing and bawling with the littluns,

for he cannot understand the nature of this force which made innocent school

boys become animalistic killers. The guilt, the shame, and most of all the

terrible fear resulting from all of these traumatizing experiences deeply

scathes Ralph beyond comprehension. Of all the characters in the book, it can be

said that Jack was the most possessed by evil and was therefore scathed deeply

by it. At the beginning of the novel, Jack is preoccupied with being able to

hunt and kill a pig for food and he tries several times, but fails; since evil

has not possessed him yet, he cannot bring himself to kill a living being.

..I was choosing a place,. said Jack. .I was just waiting for a moment

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