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Evil Element in the Works of Thomas Hardy and William Golding

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fiction writers. Evil is an intriguing concept and for centuries, writers have grappled with why men do evil. Two British writers, William Golding and Thomas Hardy, wrestle with this question  in their works; while indicating that, in many respects, it is those who are on the outside that cause disruptions and do evil deeds. However, although William Golding and Thomas  Hardy are both British writers, they are both far apart on their methods, and not only because they wrote during different times. Both men, while using outsiders as disruptive influences  on a storys direction, consider evil in different lights. While Golding is convinced that all men do evil, Hardy is a little more tolerant, believing that men are driven to  evil, rather than performing acts of evil primarily out of instinct and in some cases, self-preservation. When it comes to the  concept of evil, the overall and strongly stated threads running throughout Goldings works is that man is, at heart, a primitive savage and no matter how civilization might tame him  or calm him down, given the right circumstances, he will always fall back to his evil and primitive nature (Pujante). This theme is perfectly loud and clear in Lord of  the Flies, the book that centers on how a group of boys behaves when they are marooned on an island after their plane crashes. As the boys try to organize  into a group so they can call for rescue, they end up instead splitting into separate factions, that become formation of tribal hunters who care less about each other than  their own survival (Pujante). Although the boys were raised with a "strong sense of British character and civility," they revert back to savagery in almost an instant, killing pigs and