Have you ever looked around our world today and noticed all the cruel people and things in the world? Or have you just taken the time to notice the good in our society? Sometimes there is more to life than meets the eye and you have to dig deeper. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there are many cases where you can find good versus evil, such as man versus land and nature, Jack versus Piggy, Simon versus the boys, and Ralph versus Jack. a good example of Good versus Evil is Man versus Earth and nature. “I saw the other side of the plane, there was flames coming out of it,” “He looked up and down the scar” “And this is what the cabin made” (Golding 8). This example is at the beginning, when the boys' plane left a scar on the earth. Another example is when the boys set fire. Ralph asks Jack if he could start the fire and Jack doesn't seem to want to, so he asks for matches. "Do you want to light a fire? Now that the absurd situation was out in the open, Jack blushed too. He began to mutter vaguely. "Rub two sticks. Rub..." He glanced at Ralph, who blurted out the final confession of incompetence. "Does anyone have any matches?" (Golding 41). Smoke rose here and there among the vines that adorned the dead trees or dying. "As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of a thread, and then the smoke thickened. Small flames swirled around the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brush, splitting and growing. A patch touched the trunk of a tree and climbed up like a bright squirrel. The smoke increased, filtered, rolled outwards. The squirrel jumped on the wings of the wind and clung to another standing tree, eating from above. Under the dark canopy of leaves and smoke, the fire took hold... in the middle of the paper... even a snake-” (Golding36). The third example is when Ralph wants Jack and the hunters to keep a fire (smoke signal) so that they can be saved for all the people, but Jack is evil and lets the fire go out and says they are fine if they have light . This is proven because when Jack says “As long as there is light we are brave enough. But then? And now that thing crouches by the fire like it doesn't want us to be saved-” (Golding125). In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there are many instances where you can find good versus evil such as man versus land and nature, Jack versus Piggy, Simon versus the boys, and Ralph versus Jack. There is both good and bad around us in the world. Both good and evil make the world go round. Without good there is no evil and without evil there is no good. Works Cited Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. Print.