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The protagonists of the story are young people who find themselves taking on the responsibility of leadership, of protecting those for whom they are responsible, of creating alliances, in the context of survival from the menaces of natural disasters and incursions from foreign tribes. The question that surfaces continuously throughout the story, is if they will be capable of keeping their humanity and breaking endless cycles of violence, rather than living as beasts and perpetrating violence not only towards foreign tribes but also asking themselves. This same reflection is the basis of the 1954 novel [[w:Lord of the Flies|Lord of the Flies]] by Nobel Prize-winning British author [[w:William Golding|William Golding]], in which the story focusedfocuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves, considering the conflicting human impulses toward civilisation and social organisation—living by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and toward the will to power. The Lord of the Flies presents a but of humanity which is quite unimaginable before the horrors of Nazism, plunging into bleak speculations about mankind in the state of nature. Both the ''Lord of the Flies'' and ''The 100'' are cynical and portray humanity exclusively as selfish creatures.