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

Golding's basic philosophy can be summed up in a few words - society is evil. All of his books deal with this idea in some way or another. It is very easy to see how this idea is presented in Lord of the Flies where "the good intentions of the few are overborne by the innate evil of the many (Burgess 121)." According to one of many critics "what Golding senses is that institutions and order imposed from with out are temporary, but that man's irrationality and urge for destruction are enduring (Karl 119)." According to Golding the aim of his works is "to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature (Baker 5)."

Golding's works have a way about them that is distinctively his. All of his works are in some way copied from other works, but he adapts them to fit his own needs. In his own use of the word, Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors are "parodies" of Ballantyne and Wells. "Golding's hallmark: a polarity expressed in terms of a moral tension (Dick 121)." This is usually the key thing that makes a Golding novel a Golding novel.

Lord of the Flies, one of William Golding's many novels, is a well written, well thought out writing that depicts the evils of human nature. William Golding the man himself is qualified enough to write about such topics because he was involved heavily in W.W.II. This caused Golding's views on life to change to his current philosophy "The shape of society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable (Baker 5)." The frame work of a Golding novel is simple and most often copied from an outsid

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