The Evolution of Evilness:

Abstract

The struggle between the both sides good and evil within human psyche is constant. Hence, the study aims to analyze from a psychoanalytic literary theory the stages of developing evilness for the characters of William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954). This research attempts in one hand to explain the children conduct throughout the story that shifted towards savagery and cruelty. On the other hand it demonstrates the religious as well the political resemblances in the novel, and discusses the main issues related to the major theme. The result of the analysis proves that the novel is highly psychoanalytic since the characters are examples to comprehend the innate evil side within the individuals. Also, the way it evolves to destruct one’s self as well the environment, and others.