William Golding's novel Lord Of The Flies is an attempt to trace the defects in society back to the defects in human nature. Human beings are capable of intense evil not because of any outside factors but ... there would be no punishment for him. The recent events in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities can be easily paralleled to the loss of stability on the island in "Lord Of The Flies". As coalition forces bombarded these cities and forced local authorities to flee, the lack of authority and law gave way to a rash of crimes such as looting of stores ... ...

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