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The Lord of the Flies
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- a bit of a literary experiment
- a microcosm of the world at large
- humanity is under the microscope
- Golding strips away the "trappings" of society
- culture, adults, politics, technology
- about a group of children trapped on an island
- humans are flawed even at their most primitive forms
- **heavy symbolism***
The Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
"Lord of the Flies"
- Golding explores the existence of evil in this text, which presents itself in many different contexts.
- The title is meant as a reference to the devil or Beelzebub (the Hebrew word for the devil), which means "God of the Fly" -- translation: "Lord of the Flies."
Historical Context
- World War II & The Holocaust
- the atomic bomb
- Hiroshima & Nagasaki
- food in Britain still being rationed at this time
- fear that there would be a nuclear war between Western countries and the Soviet Union
Writing Career
- manuscript for Lord of the Flies was originally rejected by twenty one publishers
- originally titled The Strangers Within
- Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983
- "for his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today"
- named a knight in 1988
Writing Career
- Lord of the Flies (1954)
- Pincher Martin (1956)
- Free Fall (1959)
- both inspired by his WWII experiences
- published regularly after 1954
- wrote over 15 novels
William Golding
- 1911-1993
- 20th century British author
- most of career spent as a teacher
- joined the British Royal Navy in 1940
- after the end of WWII, remained a teacher until 1960
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