A. The title refers to Beelzebub, most stinking and depraved of all the devils: it is he, and not the God of the Christians, who is worshipped (Burgess 121).

B. -evil is built in him [man], part of his nature; he is led instinctively to worship of Beelzebub (Burgess 121).

C. In Lord of the Flies he [Golding] showed how people go to hell when the usual social controls are lifted, on desert islands real of imaginary (Sheed 121).

D. ....rational (the firewatchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters ) in Lord of the Flies (Dick 121).

E. The Brilliance of Lord of the Flies can scarcely be exaggerated, and horrific as it is, it cannot be dismissed merely as a horror-comic of high literary merit, as a 'sick' comment of R.M. Ballentyne's nineteenth century views of the nature of British boyhood (Allen 120).

A. He [Golding] entered the Royal Navy at the age of twenty-nine

3. Golding's characteristic themes - the origin of evil, guilt and sexuality, the wonders and danger of natural philosophy (Gordon 122).

F. What Golding senses is that institutions and order imposed form with out are temporary, but that man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring.... (Karl 119).

Karl, Krederic R. "The Metaphysical Novels of William Golding" Contemporary Literary Criticism Detroit: Gale Research, 1973: 119-120

The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the inherent evil of the many the good intentions of the few are quickly passed over for more exciting things. The killing of a pig slowly begins to take over the boys life, and they begin to go about this in a ritualistic way, dancing around the dead animal and chanting. As this thirst for blood begins to spread the group is split into the "rational (the fire-watchers) pitted against the irrational (the hunters) (Dick 121)." The fear of a mythological "beast" is perpetuated by the younger members of the groups and they are forced to do something about it. During one of the hunters celebrations around the kill of an animal a fire-watcher stumbles in to try and disband the idea of the monster. Caught of in the rabid frenzy of the dance, this fire-watcher suddenly becomes the monster and is brutally slaughtered by the other members of the group. The climax of the novel is when the hunters are confronted by the fire-watchers. The hunters had stole Piggy's (one of the fire-watchers) glasses so that they may have a means of making a cooking fire. One of the more vicious hunters roles a boulder off of a cliff, crushing Piggy, and causing the death of yet another rational being. The story concludes with the hunters hunting Ralph (the head and last of the fire-watchers). After lighting half of the island on fire in an attempt to smoke Ralph from his hiding place, they chase him on to the beach only to find a ships captain and crew waiting there to rescue them, because he saw the smoke.

B. He [Golding] finished his career as a lieutenant in command of a rocket ship; he had seen action against battleships, submarines and aircraft, and had participated in the Walcheren and D-Day operations (Epstein 104).

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