Lord Of The Flies

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orn is also an age of reason and science. Therefore, in his theory of human nature, he thinks that humans are different from animals because they are rational creatures. He also suggests that man needs to learn science and gain more knowledge then they become a real man not an animal. This is one of the differences with Golding’s idea in the novel, which I will discuss later.
For Hobbes, human passion induce to people constitute the social order. Men are self-centered animals; they have an endless desire to complete such as the desire of security, food, fame, money and so on. Hobbes uses race as a metaphor of human life, and considers that all human’s goal is to win the game. Hobbes thinks that in this game because humans have passions of winning the game, they run hardly. When one wins the game, he becomes happy. In addition, when one wants to give up from running, he must die. In this example, Hobbes wants to show us that if man loses his desire and passion, just as he gives up from running, he will die. People are happy only when they overtake others in the race. According to Hobbes’s experience, men are naturally bellicose in order to get advantages, security and honor. In order to get advantages, they compete with others, they even enslave others or their children and wives. In order to have security, they become jealousy. Men will not permit others to look down on them because honor is the one of the important things for them. These three kinds of factors are men’s desire of authority. Hobbes thinks that this kind of desire is “perpetual and restlesse (restless), ceaseth (cease) onely (only) in death .”
Hobbes’s idea about human nature just fits the story that man would do anything just for security. In the novel, chapter nine—“A View of Death”, after Jack and his group of children know the beast still exist. They start to sing the song of killing beast at night. Under the fear and uncertain atmosphere, they...