Lord of the Flies is an extremely scathing commentary on human nature. A group of innocent little boys crash land on an island and soon develop a brutal distopia that climaxes in the hunting of a human as if he were an animal. The boys act on their animalistic urges and their attempts at creating a society soon fall into nothingness. Lord of the Flies, however, has nothing to do with the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin. Darwinism is by no means a philosophy on life, it is a scientific theory. Darwin says that of there was genetic variation in a population of animals, and there are too many born to survive, then the individuals who are better equipped will have a larger chance to breed and pass their genes on. This causes extremely gradual changes over time. Darwin never mentioned humans or even primates in his most famous book, The Origin of Species. We wrote about the birds and turtles he saw on the Galapagos Islands when he was on his voyage around the world in the Beagle. Most of the book is about pigeons that he bred in his backyard. Darwinism cannot apply to the book because the book is fiction. It does not model what would happen in real life. Also, natural selection lo longer applies to people because we"re created societies that value different characteristics than nature would. Many "weaker" people survived in the novel, while some "stronger" ones didn't (like Simon). Evolution is a theory (that has been proved in many ways) that links all life together to a common ancestor. It cannot be used in philosophical terms because it describes animals that do not have conscious awareness of the world. "Survival of the fittest" is an incomplete description of evolution. .
