Is humanity good or evil? This argument has been going on since the enlightenment period. Rousseau theorized that man essentially come to this world god, but gets corrupted throughout experiences, in other words, we are nobles savages that gets corrupted through our livings. In the novel Lord of The Flies, by William Golding demonstrates that the isolated boys on the island get corrupted through their primal instincts of their savagery. The savagery that are explained in the novel, are divided into three levels, first level is the good potential, next is experience, and the final stage is savagery.

First of all, in the novel the kids are full of pride and full of education and morality. The oldest boy out of all is 12 years old, which is a good year for knowing how the world works around them and how to behave properly. Through the supervision when the boys were back in England, they describe themselves as noble beings. “’We’ve [the boys] got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re [the boys] not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.’” (40). in this discussion, Jack Merridew, the choir boy implies their pride of being English and that they should not spoil themselves from nobility to savages. There is irony used because throughout the plot summary, Jack Merridew becomes the most cruel out of all the boys, and him saying of that they are ‘not savages’ gives an ironic effect. It wasn’t just the authorization and rules that are mentioned, but the emotions for caring for one another made another sense of feeling in the beginning for hope and survival for the kids. “Simon found for [the littluns] the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.” (56). Simon represents the primal of goodness that is deeply tied within us. Simon behaves very kind to