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Lord of the Flies:
Context
- Golding's experience in WW2
- Had profound effect on his
view of humanity and the
evils of which it was capable.
- Nazi concentration
camps
- Japanese treatment
of prisoners
- Hiroshima
and Nagaski
- His involvment in
the Navy
- He served in
command of a
rocket-launcher
- While carrying out his duties
he ordered the destruction of
German ships and submarines
- Participated
in the invasion
of Normandy.
- Golding's life
- William Golding was born
on September 19, 1911, in
Cornwall, England
- Tried to write a
novel as early as age
twelve.
- Followed his parents wishes
and studied the natural
sciences at Oxford University
- Changed in his
second year to study
english literature
- His jobs
- Theater
actor and
director
- Wrote poetry
- Schoolteacher in an
all boys public school
- Died aged 81 on 19th june
1995 of heart failiure
- Lord of the Flies
- Golding wrote Lord of the Flies
in 1954, less than a decade after
World War II, when the world
was in the midst of the Cold War.
- In 1983, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature
- It was rejected by
21 publishers before
being accepted by
Faber and Faber
- In Lord of the Flies, Jack and the hunters,
who offer the luxury of meat and the
comforts of a dictatorship. In exchange for
his protection, the other boys sacrifice any
moral reservations they may have about
his policies and enthusiastically persecute
the boys who resist joining their tribe.
- As a schoolteacher,
Golding experienced the
reality of schoolboy
behavior and tendencies,
which provided him with
valuable literary material.