Mitchell, Freud and Beyond) These theories present what human behavior naturally is and what it becomes with social coaching. In the novel, the boys were stranded on an island with no social structure. ... (Golding, Pg.64) Roger knew that it would not be acceptable to throw rocks at another individual back in England. ... It became apparent to him that the social values of British society had been forgotten and replaced with the wild behavior of primitive man. "...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart..." ... With an absence of these...

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Merriam-Webster defines moral as "considered right and good by most people : agreeing with a standard of right behavior". ... "In other words, it is a kind of alchemy whereby unsavory actions are transformed by persuasive argumentation into something acceptable, if not outright positive"(Chappell 3). ... Philosopher Martha Nussbaum says this about the effects of the world on morals, "in reality it seems likely that all humans are capable of evil, and that many if not most of the hideous evil doers are warped by circumstance, both social and personal, that play a large ...

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