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Key Characters

  • Piggy
  • Ralph
  • Jack

Themes

  • Survival forces people to bring out the worst side of themselves.
  • Order can be hard to maintain when there is no one to enforce them.

Symbols

  • Conch
  • Pigs
  • The Beast
  • Flies

Author Information

William Golding

  • Won a Nobel Prize
  • WWII

Deeper Ideas

Book Overview

  • Oxford University
  • Connections to government/society
  • "innocence of man" and human nature
  • being "Civilized" vs. uncivilized

Quotes

  • "The thing is-fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island" (Golding 82-83).
  • "Life,' said Piggy expansively, 'is scientific, that's what it is...I know there isn't no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn't no fear either" (Golding 84).
  • "The greatest ideas are the simplest" (Golding 129).
  • "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy" (Golding 202).

Lord of the flies

by william golding

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