The second Lord of The Flies life lesson is that evil is inside all of us and inescapable.
Golding rejected the idea that humans can create a utopia. He instead injects the idea of inherent evil in mankind as the driving force for all of life’s injustices and failures to achieve peace on Earth.
In the novel Jack and the hunters kill a sow and display its head on a stake. They offer it as an offering to the imaginary beast which some believe lives on the island.
One night Simon has a dream in which the sow’s head, the “Lord of the Flies” speaks to him. The talking pig head informs Simon that he will never escape the beast, because it is in each of them, including Simon.
This thinking is consistent with Christianity in which the sin nature of mankind is inherent and part of our beings since the fall of mankind at the Garden of Eden.
This evil is all of us and not just the evil seen in those of Dr. Josef Mengele of the Nazis or the horror done throughout history by those who embrace the ideas of Karl Marx.
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