7/26/2023 0 Comments Author of lord of the flies![]() ![]() ![]() What is Lord of the Flies About and Why Should I Care? His Lord of the Flies, which uses many of the same character names that Ballantyne did, shows almost the opposite scenario: instead of the boys conquering the heathen wild, the heathen wild conquers the boys. Naturally, this was a huge success in Victorian England-but Golding wasn't so impressed. In The Coral Island, some white, European boys end up on an island and use Christianity to "conquer" the "heathen ways" of the Polynesian natives. Golding was responding to another novel, The Coral Island, written by R.M. Just as Lord of the Flies wasn't the last kids-stuck-on-an-island story, it wasn't the first. It's either about the inherent evil of man, or psychological struggle, or religion, or human nature, or the author's feelings on war (Golding was in the Navy during WWII), or possibly all of the above. People can't seem to decide exactly what. Lord of the Flies is an allegory (essentially a story with a moral), about…well, something-jump ahead to our Lord of the Flies summary if you can't wait. Just like The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies was a great success-although we're not convinced that Suzanne Collins is going to follow in William Golding's steps by winning a Nobel Prize for Literature for "illuminat the human condition of the world today." (Love ya, Suze.) But you have to admit, the premise is similar: a bunch of kids end up on an island/ arena and turn into vicious savages in about, oh, five minutes. Well, okay, before there was The Hunger Games, there was reality TV and the 1996 Japanese novel (and later movie) Battle Royale. Before The Hunger Games, there was William Golding's 1954 Lord of the Flies. ![]()
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