The Inheritors by William Golding is a poetic account of the origin of evil in man which has been considered to be an imaginative take on the idea of evil and its origins among the Homo-sapiens. Like Lord of the Flies is considered to be a dramatization of evil in man and how this evil pierces the mask of civilization, The Inheritors focuses on the origin of evil. A novel written from the point of view of Neanderthal man, Golding depicts the natural man in his Adamite innocence, the loss of this innocence and the tensions and anxieties associated with loss. This pre-historic novel relates the encounter between the last surviving family of Neanderthal species and the first “true men.”