Exploring William Golding's Lord of the Flies
Dive into William Golding's classic novel "Lord of the Flies" which delves into the dark side of human nature, reflecting on social attitudes, symbols of evil, and the vivid settings that shape the narrative. Discover the deep-rooted themes of violence, cruelty, and societal hierarchies as the story unfolds on a remote tropical island, challenging the very essence of human existence.
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The Author William Golding was born in England in 1911 and died in 1993. He was a writer and a teacher at an expensive boy s school. His experience as a teacher showed him that children could be very cruel to one another. He fought in the second World War and saw for himself the destruction and cruelty of war. These horrific events made him believe that all human beings were capable of extreme evil. He expressed his belief in the dark side of human nature in his first novel , which he wrote in 1954.
Background The use of the atomic weapons horrified people. Many were worried about the possibility of an atomic war that could destroy the world. Although the USA and the Soviet Union never fought each other directly, each of them threatened to destroy the other with nuclear weapons. Golding was interested in what makes people violent and leads them to fight each other, especially when they are in very difficult situations. In Lord of the Flies, he shows us how pointless war is. The fire in the novel becomes a symbol of the atom bomb, 1.War: During the second world war more than 60- million people were killed and many cities were destroyed by bombs. The Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb were two of the worst events of that terrible war. The Holocaust was the mass murder of about eleven million people by Adolf Hitler s Nazi Party. Those murdered were Jews, gypsies, communists, homosexuals and the disabled. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the two Japanese cities on which America dropped atomic bombs. These caused burns, radiation sickness and other injuries and illnesses.
Introduction 2. Social Attitude Some of the characters in the novel show negative attitudes towards others who come from different backgrounds. This reflects attitudes the boys learned from adults in their society. The upper classes may consider themselves superior and look down on people form lower classes. In lord of the flies, Piggy is from a working class family. Most of the other boys come upper class families.
Title of the novel Lord of the Flies is a reference to one of the names of Satan which is Beelzebub . The author thus symbolizes the evil that is found in the hearts of people who behave in cruel and savage ways.
Lord of the Flies: Setting In this novel, a group of boys ends up on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean when their plane is shot down. On the island, there are now adults (grown-ups). There is a beach with a lagoon (a pool of salt water separated from the sea by a coral reef. Beyond the coral reef is the Pacific ocean . Behind the beach are the jungle (forest) and a mountain of pink rock. Fruit grows in the forest , there are butterflies, birds and wild pigs. The weather is extremely hot.
