... of human nature. He demonstrates this by showing the degeneration of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. As the rules and symbols of power and authority are stripped from the group they revert to savagery power struggles and murder. The strong survive and the weak perish. The story starts when a plane ... of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink." The quotes I have chosen to illustrate my point are to show how J...

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