There were many different theories that many authors and poets had used to get inspiration from very famous philosophers. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding there is a story of boys who go to school but take a sharp turn for the worse and are abandoned on a mysterious island. The people in the group of kids start to have a consensus and even start to have a leader, but they start to fall apart and end up going wild. In the poem Snake by DH Lawrence the story is told of a man who is going to fetch water but sees a snake during his journey for water. Even though he wants his water now, he waits patiently for the snake to leave, then throws a stick because he subconsciously knew it wouldn't hit the snake. There was a philosopher who is related to and contributes to the connection of both the Serpent and the Lord of the Flies. John Locke was a 17th and 18th century British writer and philosopher and his ideas were very important and were emphasized in both the book and poetry. The ideas of John Locke's Tabula Rasa connect to the "Lord of the Flies" and the Serpent because the imprint of goodness and badness through society. The Lord of the Flies connects to the Serpent because of the effects on society that they both had to go through to achieve something. In Lord of the Flies the kids on the island get together and vote to see who is the leader of the group, and it's Ralph. Like the snake, the children of the island had devious actions and nothing wrong was happening. However, many different things began to happen thereafter. Some people on the island didn't think Ralph was right for the job and so Jack had taken his choir boys and gone to their little club... middle of paper... and unconsciously thrown the log after the snake because she didn't want to disturb him after he was already gone. The influence of society is also present in the serpent. “And voices inside me said, If you were a man, you would take a stick and break it now and finish it off.” (Snake, Stanza 6) This symbolizes people telling him to hit the snake to get water, but his His mind is fighting against the other side and he finally waits for the snake to go away on its own. In both D.H. Lawrence's The Serpent and William Golding's Lord of the Flies there were examples of nature versus nurture and "Tabula Rasa" which were two of John Locke's theories. With the battle between both sides of good and evil in one story and the effects of rumors on society in another, there were many different things that John Locke had influenced through his ideas and philosophies..