About William Golding's Novel "The Lord of the Flies"
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 06:15:45
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1353 words)
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 5 pages (1353 words)
William Golding's novel 'The Lord of The flies' presents us with a group of English boys who are isolated on a desert island, left to try and retain a civilised society. In this novel Golding manages to display the boys slow descent into savagery as democracy on the island diminishes.
At the opening of the novel, Ralph and Jack get on extremely well. We are informed Jack, "shared his burden," and there was an, "invisible …
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…face the truth about their inner desires.
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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