William Golding was the author of Lord of the Flies, a book that is still very controversial today due to the fact that Golding showed British schoolchildren resorting to complete savagery and barbarism, feasting about raw pork and fighting with each other; Its demonstration of how humanity has an evil within each of us, no matter how deeply hidden it is. Jean Jacques Rousseau was the author of the dissertation on the origin and foundation of the inequality of humanity. Both of these controversial books showed the author's views on humanity and society. Golding believed that humans in nature are evil and that society is what tames that beast. Rousseau disagrees and believes that society is what defiles humans, and that humans are naturally good and strong-minded. I believe Rousseau is right that society is what defiles human beings and makes them greedy and selfish for power, destroying what we have left of common sense and rational decision making. Rousseau lived between the early 1700s and the late 1700s. He influenced the French Revolution with his political philosophy. Rousseau is convinced of this ...