We are all murderers and prostitutes no matter to what culture, society, class, nation
one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be. R. D.
Laing British psychiatrist. R.D. Laing obviously backs up William Golding s point of
view that human nature is evil. Human nature is directly affected by the environment;
and is constantly changing due to the experiences of the individual. Oscar Wilde once
said The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
Change is the one quality we can predicate from it. The systems that fail are those who
rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The
error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The
result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. Human nature
depends upon the environment in which they are immersed. The idea that children, not
humans in general, are swayed by the ideas and actions of their parental figures is also a
central idea of the book, The Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
Because of the war in England where the boys were from their human
experience was one of war. If there was no war going on in England at the time they
were evacuated from England, there would ve been no deaths, no Lord of the Flies, and
certainly no beast. Because if they had came with a good human nature then how would
there have been a beast which Golding classified as the basic evil inside all of us.
Another thing that ties in with this that children try to copy what they see adults do so if
a child sees an adult smoke up or drink then he may believe that it is okay or it is right
because their parents do it. As George Orwell once said Part of the reason for the
ugliness of adults, in a child s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and the
adults are rarely looking down. Yet no matter what they will always adore, look up to
and love their parents. But as was just said sometimes that can be a bad thing. So what
must we do? Well for starters why not try to teach our children better and try at all costs
to set good examples for our children so that our society will hopefully be salvaged from
the god forsaken wrath of evil.
Children who s parents smoke have a 40% higher chance of smoking than
children who s parents don t smoke.1 Chances are it is a mix of two things, first the fact
that they think that it is okay for them to do it since their parents do it, the second is
because of the nicotine addiction could be passed on from adults to their offspring. Now
of course there are exceptions to the thesis like kids who smoke because their parents
don t, but that is usually a small percentile of the population. Most children will not do it
as a rebellious act just because they see their parents doing it so therefor it is okay. Now
as was stated briefly previously kids will a lot of the time do what their parents do
because they look up to them so why wouldn t they copy what the adults are doing. So
why can t we just stop altogether because we have a lazy society who rejects change so
this may take a lot longer than would be hoped for.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes.
Change is the one quality we can predicate from it. The systems that fail are those who
rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The
error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The
result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result. So with this in
mind why do people still rely on human nature to remain the same when it has been
proven that human nature is constantly changing. That is why our country has not
recently had a revolt because our forefathers had enough insight to know that things
would not be the same 200 years from then. This idea was shown throughout the book by
the kids changing their minds and revolting. First all the children agreed that rules were
needed to keep order amongst themselves. Then when they felt the boring and unpleasant
side of work and rules they changed their human nature to that of a slacker or a person
who doesn t follow society s rules and doesn t attempt to strive for excellence. Also after
voting Ralph the president, people still later agreed and followed Jack. So basically al
that can be gathered by this information is that never rely on human nature to remain the
same.
In conclusion, although it may no work due to the constant changing of human
nature, we must try not to set bad examples for younger ones who look up to us, and also
try to give our children the best life we can provide for them and teach them right from
wrong and teach them the right morals. Basically, we should just try to do the best
parenting job we can do and hope the information and things you taught him or her will
help them through life.