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Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is probably one of the most shocking novels that I ever read. I read the book when I was in elementary school as a member of literature club. At that time I was so young that I could not understand what message the book was giving but still I was very shocked about how the story ends. Now I read the book once again and this time it came more astonishing to me as I know the book much deeply.

Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding in 1954. Golding had studied a natural science until he changed his major to literature in his second grade (SparkNotes). He was in a World War 2 and while he was taking a war, he experienced a darkness of human behavior and it affected a lot to his thinking about human nature (E.L.Epstein). He decided to write novels instead of teaching after the war and his first novel Lord of the Flies, his masterpiece, amazed the literature world. From the success of the book Golding got a huge reputation as a writer and was able to continue to write several novels.

Story begins with a boy named Ralph who is a good looking boy with sturdy build. The book describes that a group of school boys were landed on the island accidently while they were evacuated by plane to be safe from a nuclear war. In Lord of the Flies a whole story is developed in the tropical island focusing events between Ralph and other characters around him.

In the beginning of the story Ralph who is mentioned first of all characters in the book is looking around the island that he is standing on. Then he finds another boy with glasses introduced oneself as Piggy. They find out that the plane which was evacuating them made an emergency landing on the island and was wrecked. They wander across beach th...

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...he way dictators control the crowds on history. The boys’ evilness is made from other evil which may be also made from another evil. Even Jack may be good at the first. The root of evil that Jack and his hunters absorbed is actually ignorance. They were not as smart as Piggy or Ralph so they did not know the importance of signal fire. Because of their stupidity, they couldn’t recognize what is right or wrong and just followed their instincts like animals. Socrates said, “The only good is knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” All humans are naturally good. Destruction, violence, madness, irrational acts from evil is made by their ignorance.

SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Lord of the Flies.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2007. Web. 26 Nov. 2013.

V.V.Subbarao, “William Golding: A Study,” 1987

E.L.Epstein, “Biographical and Critical Notes,” 2006