The book, The Lord of The Flies, was written in 1954 by author William Golding. It is about a large group of British school boys who are stranded on a deserted island all by themselves. They must learn to survive by themselves even though they are such a young age. Many scholars or teachers have read this book, and may see different views, meanings, and beliefs that they feel this story could actually be about. The book shows many things that can be related to the author life or views, time period, and to the country of Great Britain.
The Lord of the Flies was written and published after the second world war. Golding made some references, even small ones, to the war in this book. This could be due to the fact that Golding was in the navy during the war (Bloom). One reference was that the choir boys were dressed in the same colors as the Nazis wore in the war. Also, the choir boys were represented as killers and hunters in the book, same as the Nazis were practically killers during the war, and they “hunted” the Jews (Golding). Throughout the book, there is also mentioning of a war going on, with bombs dropping everywhere.
Another view that Golding wanted to push out was that even children that were British could still turn cruel or savage, and that it doesn’t have to happen only in specific countries, that it could happen anywhere. He also wanted to push out the point that “One lot of people is like another lot of people.” What he means by this, is that one group of people can act the same as another group and that just because people seem to be good it doesn’t mean that they can’t be bad. He feels as though the British had to learn over hundreds of years that people are like this, and that it is not a new concept, only somethi...
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... things, such as political, racial, sexist, or a few other ideas and views. The book may be viewed differently to some people than others, but all of the ideas are easily seen throughout the entire story.
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Lord of the Flies, a book written by William Golding, published by Faber and Faber and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is a story that talks about a group of school age boys who have landed on an unknown / uninhabited island during the second world war. Throughout their stay on the island they find ways to survive, such as finding and hunting for food as well as building basic needs like shelters and a fire. At a certain moment in the book two of the main characters, Ralph and Jack declare a war between each other because Jack refuses to have Ralph as the group’s leader for another second. This then leads to the division of the group as well as many scenes in which one sabotages the other. An example of this is when Jack’s tribe steals
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Part of Golding’s intent was to demonstrate that the evil is not recognised in specific populations or situations. On the island the beast is manifest in the deadly tribal dances, war paint and manhunt: in the outside world the same lust for power and control plays out as a nuclear war. Throughout ‘The Lord of the Flies’ Golding has managed to show that evil is present in everyone.
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The author of this book, William Gerald Golding was born in Cornwall, England, in 1911. He graduated Oxford University. Also he had experience in teaching in school he could have been easy to set the character with young kids in the story. He had written many books before Lord of the Flies and he awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. William has an experience of being a Navy in World Wall Ⅱ, he could describe well in the story. In 1993 he ended up his life.
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is tale of a group of young boys who become stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. Intertwined in this classic novel are many themes, most that relate to the inherent evil that exists in all human beings and the malicious nature of mankind. In The Lord of the Flies, Golding shows the boys' gradual transformation from being civilized, well-mannered people to savage, ritualistic beasts.
Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding in 1954 about a group of young British boys who have been stranded alone together on an island with no adults. During the novel the diverse group of boys struggle to create structure within a society that they constructed by themselves. Golding uses many unique literary devices including characterization, imagery, symbolism and many more. The three main characters, Ralph, Piggy, and Jack are each representative of the three main literary devices, ethos, logos, and pathos. Beyond the characterization the novel stands out because of Golding’s dramatic use of objective symbolism, throughout the novel he uses symbols like the conch, fire, and Piggy’s glasses to represent how power has evolved and to show how civilized or uncivilized the boys are acting. It is almost inarguable that the entire novel is one big allegory in itself, the way that Golding portrays the development of savagery among the boys is a clear representation of how society was changing during the time the novel was published. Golding is writing during
The novel “Lord of the Flies” was written by William Golding to demonstrate the problems of society and the sinful nature of man.
Golding, William, and Edmund L. Epstein. Lord of the Flies: A Novel. New York: Perigee, 1954. Print.
The book Lord of the Flies was William Golding’s first novel he had published, and also his one that is the most well known. It follows the story of a group of British schoolboys whose plane, supposedly carrying them somewhere safe to live during the vaguely mentioned war going on, crashes on the shore of a deserted island. They try to attempt to cope with their situation and govern themselves while they wait to be rescued, but they instead regress to primal instincts and the manner and mentality of humanity’s earliest societies.
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