In Lord of the Flies, William Golding expresses the idea that human beings are naturally immoral and that people are moral only because of the pressures of civilization. He does this by writing about a group of kids and their story of survival on an island. The civilized society they form quickly deteriorates into a savage tribe, showing that, far from civilization and adults, the boys rapidly deteriorate into the state man was in millions of years ago. This tendency is especially shown in Jack, who has an animalistic love for power, and in Roger, who loves to kill for pleasure. Even the more civilized boys, Ralph and Piggy, show a wild side as they watch Simon get murdered without trying to save him. Simon, the only one who seems to have a truly good spirit, is killed, symbolizing how rare truly good people are and how quickly those personalities become corrupted. Man's immorality is expressed in the steady decline of human decency in the civilization that the boys create on their island. In the few weeks after the plane crash that strands them on an island paradise, Ralph organizes the boys into an orderly civilization. However, the boys soon realize that no one is around to scold them if they hurt, bully, or even kill each other and the animals on the island, and they begin to follow the sadistic Jack. He encourages them to become savage by showing them the joy of hurting and killing lesser animals. The boys' actions show that the man's morality was not ingrained into his being, but instilled in him by the pressures of civilization. Without civilization to keep people in check, they start to lash out, because no one is holding them back. This property is especially shown by Roger in Lord of the Flies. In the beginning... in the middle of the paper... true moral behavior is repressed by the majority, who are all immoral and love to bully and kill the weak. Ultimately, there is no hope for true spiritual purity. Human beings are naturally immoral and the only reason they are moral is because civilization gave it to them. As we see in Lord of the Flies, all the boys except Simon feel the need to destroy and kill. They go on wild pig hunts, hurt each other for fun and form a wild tribe where everything is run by the tyrannical Jack and the sadistic Roger. Piggy and Ralph also sense some of the others' mob mentality when they all, as a group, kill Simon, the only boy with a civilized heart. His death symbolizes how humanity kills any notion of sympathy for his cruel and evil heart. If it were not for the moralizing effects of civilization, there would be no human being present who took pity on others.