The Most Dangerous Game and The Lord of the Flies are both similar takes on human nature,

and the savagery within each person. Both take place in isolation. The characters are all stuck on an island indefinitely. Richard Connell, the author of The Most Dangerous Game, creates a scenario where a man is faced with either giving into savagery or sticking with his societys ideals. Rainsford is stranded on an island with a human hunter, General Zaroff, who gives him the choice to either hunt or be hunted. When Rainsford refused to hunt, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse commences with the savage hunting the civilized. William Goldings The Lord of the Flies is about a group of young boys from around Britain whose plane crashed when attempting to escape the war. It shows their quick descent from civil to savage. The young boys from around Britain whose plane crashed when attempting to escape the war. It shows their quick descent from civil to savage. The young boys are representative of humans without the influence of society and what people are born as-savage. The Most Dangerous Game and The Lord of the Flies are both provocative interpretations of human nature and how anyone can become savage. In both the The Most Dangerous Game and The Lord of the Flies, there contains an illusion of civilization. The children of The Lord of the Flies establish a leader, hierarchy and laws to maintain a functioning society. At the beginning, the children attempted to create a functioning society that is civilized. The children came to the general consensus that *they+ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, *they+re not savages (Golding 42). The children believed that they were civilized, even while they evidently were not. General Zaroff, from The Most Dangerous Game also believed he was civilized on his island. He created a materialistic version of civilization because *he tries+ to be civilized *th+ere (Connell 51) even though he has fake channel that contains giant rocks with razor edges crouch*ed+ like a sea monster with wide-open draws [that can] crush a ship *with ease+ (Connell 51). Even though he is causing many human lives to be lost, he still believes he is a civil person. Human murder occurred in both stories, and both attempted to justify in two diverse ways, yet still similar. The boys believed that Simon was the beast, and therefore killed him. However, Jack still said that *the beast+ came disguised. He may come again even though *they+ gave him the head of *their+ kill to eat (Golding __). However, they themselves probably knew that Simon was not the Beast in the whole ordeal.