In the psychological fiction novel “Lord Of the Flies” by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island with non adults after a plane crash. Out of the group of young boys, two neutral leaders arise which are Ralph and Jack. The innocent civilized boys start heading towards evil and savagery due to their actions and conflicts between individuals. The actions of the boys in Lord Of the Flies are similar to Zimbardo’s 7 processes that displays the slippery slope of evil.
At the start of the novel, the opposer, Jack sincerely shows repulsive behavior through his animosity. For example, when Jack makes the movement to cut the pig, 'there came an pause' and 'the piglet tore loose from the creepers' (31). This speaks to the initial move towards evil and how despite Jack is reluctant to really kill the pig, he thoughtlessly winds up fixated on chasing after some time. Also, one of the characters, Piggy, is known as a debasing moniker all through the whole novel after Jack lets him know, 'Quiets down, greasy' (21). This demonstrates Jack treats individuals with no regard for their sentiments so as to pick up control and is dehumanizing Piggy which depicts the second step. With everything taken into account, the way that Jack picks up opportunity from being far from development, it just winds up impacting him to grasp his evilness.
Thusly, Jack can influence others into tracking with his remorseless goals by controlling them through dread. To take for example, when Jack leaves the wilderness in the wake of murdering the pig, his face is 'spread with muds' (69). Not exclusively does the face paint change Jack's appearance, making him mysterious which is appeared in stage 3, however it changes his disposition, enabling him to let out the his inward evil spirits and at last murder the pig. Additionally, the young men murder Simon, confusing him with the brute, which is depicted by 'the tearing of teeth and paws' (153). This shows how Jack could get alternate young men (stage 4 and 5) to slaughter Simon through persuading in something false. By and large, Jacks capacity to control alternate young men makes a disorganized situation driving everybody towards brutality.
Besides, the kid's ville attitude is standardized because of the way that any type of human progress has been disposed of on the island. In particular, when Piggy passes on and Ralph turns into the foe, Samneric encourage Ralph to 'fend off similarly as [he] can' and that it's 'for [his] claim great' (189). This proposes Samneric have discovered that in the event that they obey Jack, no mischief will come, and thusly, they do what he says beyond a shadow of a doubt (stage 6). Furthermore, the young men don't mediate and know that Jack's activities aren't right in light of the fact that Roger states, '[Jack] is going to beat Wilfred' (159). This exhibits the seventh step, and how Roger recognized what Jack was doing yet chose not to mediate. To put it plainly, these characters have the capacity to have insidious attributes, yet not every one of them can face the abhorrent they confront.
All in all, the characters in this novel depict certain parts of human instinct that relate to Zimbardo's seven stages. Regardless of whether each character followed up on their detestable musings, they took an interest in permitting another person to, which mirrored the valor factor, all things considered. Zimbardo clarifies that individuals' malevolent attributes can be brought out in specific situations which is appeared all through Jack's activities. The solidarity to battle this attribute originates from the psychological toughness an individual has, however no everybody is fit for this.