A Study Guide (New Edition) for William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
1954
Introduction
Lord of the Flies, published in 1954, was British author William Golding's first novel. While initially the novel did not sell very well—and the manuscript was even rejected by numerous publishers—it ultimately became one of the world's most recognized and highly regarded novels of the twentieth century, earning spots on the Modern Library's Best 100 Novels
lists: forty-first on the editors' list and twenty-fifth on the readers' list. In short order, Lord of the Flies became a fixture in high-school and college curricula.
The novel is set against the backdrop of an unspecified atomic war. Its cast is a group of British schoolboys ranging in age from about six to twelve. They are being evacuated because of the war, but their plane crashes on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, leaving them marooned. Left to themselves, without adult supervision, they try to establish an orderly society, but they quickly descend into savagery, turning against one another in the face of an imagined enemy. The novel is widely regarded as allegorical, but readers tend to disagree about the nature of the allegory. For some, the novel is a commentary on war. For others, it is a reflection on the human propensity for evil. For still others, it is an exploration of human psychology and human nature. Some readers see the novel in religious terms, finding analogues to original sin, Christ, and events from the Gospels. This lack of determinacy is perhaps what continues to intrigue readers more than half a century after the novel was published.
Author Biography
William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in St. Columb Minor, a village in Cornwall, England, where he was raised in a manor house built in the fourteenth century. His mother, Mildred, was active in the effort to secure the right to vote for women; his father, Alec, was a schoolteacher at the Marlborough Grammar School, which Golding attended as a child. At age twelve, he tried to write a novel, but he became frustrated and, according to his own testimony, compensated by becoming a brat and a bully. He later enrolled at Brasenose College, at Oxford University, where his intention initially was to study natural sciences, but after two years, he changed his major to English literature. In 1934 he published his first book, Poems, which attracted virtually no attention from critics. The following year he graduated from Oxford with honors.
In the mid-1930s Golding worked at settlement houses and in the theater, but he eventually decided on a career in education,