It really helps when I'm writing essays and projects. I found it very difficult,because the book is written in old english. I find it necessary to cut through all the rhetoric regarding Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies represents the true split of personality indiginous to every living creature. Call it what you will, Satan or God, the true meaning lies within each of our hearts.
Any man is capable of the atrocities committed on the island.
We are all capable of good and evil. At a more basic level, we are brought into this world as Ralph is presented in the book, and grow into the monster known as Jack Merridew. We must look into our hearts and find the piece of Ralph that is left and guide him into the light. In a depraved environment, lacking natural negative consequences for wrongful behavior, man will indeed display depravity to match the environment. However, in an environment with an ethical system of incentives man will tend to self-correct wrongful behavior during the pursuit of satisfaction of his own needs and aims.