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    William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954, drawing on his experiences in World War II. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys stranded alone on an uninhabited island. Without the constraints of society and civilization, the boys' human nature leads them away from reason and order towards savagery. They descend into conflict and violence as the stronger boys hunt and the weaker are abused. The conch shell symbolizes their attempts to maintain the rules of civilization, but these collapse as fear and the desire for power take over.

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    William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954, drawing on his experiences in World War II. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys stranded alone on an uninhabited island. Without the constraints of society and civilization, the boys' human nature leads them away from reason and order towards savagery. They descend into conflict and violence as the stronger boys hunt and the weaker are abused. The conch shell symbolizes their attempts to maintain the rules of civilization, but these collapse as fear and the desire for power take over.

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    William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954, drawing on his experiences in World War II. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys stranded alone on an uninhabited island. Without the constraints of society and civilization, the boys' human nature leads them away from reason and order towards savagery. They descend into conflict and violence as the stronger boys hunt and the weaker are abused. The conch shell symbolizes their attempts to maintain the rules of civilization, but these collapse as fear and the desire for power take over.

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    William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954, drawing on his experiences in World War II. The novel tells the story of a group of British boys stranded alone on an uninhabited island. Without the constraints of society and civilization, the boys' human nature leads them away from reason and order towards savagery. They descend into conflict and violence as the stronger boys hunt and the weaker are abused. The conch shell symbolizes their attempts to maintain the rules of civilization, but these collapse as fear and the desire for power take over.

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    William Golding

    Lord of the Flies


    William Golding
    • * 19th September 1911 in UK
    • † 19th June 1993

    • Parents wanted him to be a scientist, but he always had an interest in reading and writing
    • At Oxford University he switched from science to literature
    • World War II  landing at Normandy
    • Experiences in war – influenced his view on humanity
    • After war he started writing novels and teaching
    • In 1954 was published his first and most successful novel – Lord of the Flies
    • 1983 – Nobel prize for literature

    • The Scorpion God


    • Darkness Visible
    • Fire Down Below
    Lord of the Flies
    • Written in UK
    • 1954
    • Literary period: Post-war fiction
    • Genre: Adventure novel

    • It shows boys stranded on island trying transforming and civilizing nature, but instead they descend into
    wildness

    • Other adventure novels (Robinson Crusoe) – humanity is in fact civilized, Lord of the Flies shows the
    opposite

    • Inspired by Goldings war experiences – people are warlike, power hungry


    Lord of the Flies
    Themes
    Human Nature
    The civilization the boys form collapses under their inner savagery – rather
    than follow rules and work hard  fun, fear, violence
    Golding believed that human nature, free from the constraints of society,
    draws people away from reason toward savagery

    Civilization
    Boys shaped by very civilized British society become savages due to fear,
    superstition and desire

    Wildness and the Beast


    Beast – represents the savage impulses lying deep within every human
    Civilization exist to suppress the beast – force to act responsibly and rationally

    The Weak and the Strong


    Boys fight to be respected by other boys – physically abuse the weaker ones
    Lord of the Flies
    Characters
    Ralph – the most physically powerful boy, despite size and power Ralph shows no interest of dominating
    others, he plans and follows rules, always manages to suppress savage feelings
    Symbolizes law, government, and civil society

    Piggy – smartest boy, but weakest (obesity, asthma), believes in civilization and law, critic
    Symbolizes science and rationality

    Jack – becomes leader of hunters, loves power, want to express dominance, he thinks only about himself
    Symbolizes human love of dominance and power

    Simon – generous, insightful, only one who recognized the beast

    Roger – symbolizes sadism


    Lord of the Flies
    Symbols
    The Lord of the Flies – or the beast – savage monster buried in everyone
    It tells Simon "we are going to have fun on this island“ = do everything they want and desire, without
    regard to the rules of civilization
    Name is a reference to the Biblical devil Beelzebub  symbolizes the evil and violence that potentially
    exists in the heart of every human

    The Conch Shell – symbolizes the rule of law and civilization, used to call gatherings, grants right to speak

    Piggy's Glasses – used to create fire, represents science and technology, humans can remake nature

    Fire – hope for rescue, destructive


    Lord of the Flies
    Plot
    A group of English schoolboys are marooned on a jungle island with no adults after their plane is shot down in the middle of a war.
    Two of the boys find a conch shell. Ralph blows into it like a horn, and all the boys on the island assemble. At the assembly, a boy
    named Jack mocks Piggy for being fat and runs against Ralph to become chief of the group. Ralph wins the election and declares
    Jack the leader of the group's hunters. Soon after, Ralph, Jack, and another boy named Simon explore the island and discover wild
    pigs. At a second assembly, the boys set up rules to govern themselves. The first rule is that whoever wants to speak at an assembly
    must hold the conch. At the meeting, one young boy claims he saw a "beast" in the jungle, but Ralph dismisses it as just the product
    of a nightmare. Ralph then suggests that they build a signal fire at the top of a mountain so any passing ships will see its smoke and
    rescue them. The boys use Piggy's glasses to light the fire, but they're careless, and accidentally set part of the forest on fire. The
    boy who saw the beastie vanishes during the fire and is never seen again.
    Lord of the Flies
    Plot
    Time passes. Tensions rise. Ralph becomes frustrated when no one helps him build shelters. Lots of boys goof off, while Jack obsesses about hunting and
    takes every opportunity to mock Piggy, who is smart but weak. Simon, meanwhile, often wanders off into the forest to meditate. The rivalry between
    Ralph and Jack erupts when Jack forces the boys who were supposed to watch the signal fire come hunting with him. They kill their first pig, but a ship
    passes while the signal fire is out, which causes a tremendous argument between Ralph and Jack.
    Ralph calls an assembly hoping to set things right. But the meeting soon becomes chaotic as several younger boys talk about the beast. Now even the
    bigger boys are fearful. That night, after a distant airplane battle, a dead parachutist lands on the mountaintop next to the signal fire. The boys on duty at
    the fire think it's the beast. Soon Ralph and Jack lead an expedition to search the island for the beast. While searching, they find a rock outcropping that
    would make a great fort, but no beast. Tempers between the two boys soon flare up, and they climb the mountain in the dark to prove their courage. They
    spot the shadowy parachutist and think he's the beast.
    The next morning, Jack challenges Ralph's authority at an assembly. Ralph wins, but Jack leaves the group, and most of the older boys join him. Jack's
    tribe paint their faces, hunt, and kill a pig. They then leave its head as an offering to the beast. Simon comes upon the head, and sees that it's the 
    Lord of the Flies—the beast within all men. While Jack invites everyone to come to a feast, Simon climbs the mountain and sees the parachutist. When
    Simon returns to tell everyone the truth about the "beast," however, the boys at the feast have become a frenzied mob, acting out a ritual killing of a pig.
    The mob thinks Simon is the beast and kills him.
    Jack's tribe moves to the rock fort. They steal Piggy's glasses to make fire. Ralph and his last allies, Piggy and the twins named Samneric, go to get the
    glasses back. Jack's tribe captures the twins, and a boy named Roger rolls a boulder from the fort that smashes the conch and kills Piggy. The next day the
    tribe hunts Ralph, setting fire to the forest as they do. He evades them as best he can, and becomes a kind of animal that thinks only of survival and
    escape. Eventually the boys corner Ralph on the beach where they first set up their society when they crash landed on the island. But the burning jungle
    has attracted a British Naval ship, and an officer is standing on the shore. The boys stop, stunned, and stare at the man. He jokingly asks if the boys are
    playing at war, and whether there were any casualties. When Ralph says yes, the officer is shocked and disappointed that English boys would act in such a
    manner. Ralph starts to cry, and soon the other boys start crying too. The officer, uncomfortable, looks away toward his warship.

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