The setting of the novel, Lord of the Flies, is significant because it allows the boys to be removed from the constraints of civilization. The boys were not displaced from their society and its rules and expectations and placed into a different society with its own rules and expectations; they were removed from their society and placed in a setting with no rules or expectations. One of the major themes in the novel is that human nature is created by the society in which it is nurtured. By the boys being placed in a setting that is devoid of human influence-- an uninhabited tropical island-- their true nature is able to emerge. The question that the reader must grapple with as a result of the setting is whether or not we are "good" or "bad" because that is who we are inherently, or because that is the self that society's influence has created.
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