Home Discussion Topics Dictionary ... Login Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies Discussion Overview Lord of the Flies is a novel Novel A novel is a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding William Golding Sir William Gerald Golding was a British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate best known for his novel Lord of the Flies...
. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland In the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
schoolboys stuck on a deserted island Desert island A desert island or uninhabited island is an island that has yet to be populated by humans. Uninhabited islands are often used in movies or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of "paradise"...
who try to govern themselves, but with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the | |
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