Nihilism is described as the rejection of all religious and moral principles, usually in the belief that life is essentially meaningless. After the death of the protagonist, the reader's attention was focused more on Ed Tom Bell. Through the pages of monologue he has at the beginning of each chapter, one can deduce that the Sheriff strays from making sense of a moral world that seems corrupt and broken. This is shown at the beginning of the novel where he mentions a “prophet of destruction” (McCarthy, 4) that he does not want to meet and cannot understand. The series of events that Bell witnessed led to nihilism in the novel as he failed to understand morality in the universe. For this reason, Bell retires from service at the end of the novel. In William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys find themselves stranded on an uninhabited island after their plane crashes. The story focuses on the boys as they try to govern themselves. The novel focuses on themes such as human nature and instinct leading the novel to have a sense of nihilism throughout. The kids lose their sense of morality in order to survive, which leads to questions that bring out nihilism. Both novels touch on this philosophy as they challenge morality and human nature through the experiences and ideals of...