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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

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Author Biography

Name: William Golding
Variant Name: William Gerald Golding
Birth Date: September 19, 1911
Death Date: June 19, 1993
Place of Birth: St. Columb, Cornwall, England
Place of Death: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author

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Biography of William Golding
11317 words, approx. 37.7 pages
William Golding achieved international fame and wide critical acceptance with his first published novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954. Since that time his fictional canon has won Golding a special niche in the pantheon of modern British fiction. It is a ni...
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Biography of William (Gerald) Golding
10898 words, approx. 36.3 pages
William Golding achieved international fame and wide critical acceptance with his first published novel, Lord of the Flies, in 1954. Since that time he has produced six other distinguished novels (at least two of which have been mentioned as his masterpi...
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Biography of William Golding
7310 words, approx. 24.4 pages
The winner of the 1983 Nobel Prize in literature, William Golding (1911-1993)is among the most popular and influential British authors to have emerged after World War II. Golding's reputation rests primarily upon his acclaimed first novel Lord of the Fli...
 


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Lord of the Flies Summary
5,444 words, approx. 18 pages
Lord of the Flies by William Golding William Golding was born at St. Columb Minor, Cornwall, on September 19, 1911. His father, Alec Golding, the Senior Assistant Master at the Marlboro Grammar School, specialized in science and wrote textbooks (on...
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Lord of the Flies Summary
3,344 words, approx. 11 pages
Lord of the Flies by William Golding After earning his degree from England's Oxford University in 1935, William Golding became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury, where he taught English and Greek literature in translation. Soon...
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Lord of the Flies Information
2,487 words, approx. 8 pages
Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails and how man shall always turn to barbarism, using parallels of a group of school-boys stuck on a deserted island who...


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Lord Of The Flies
08/19/1998: 870 words, approx. 3 pages
BOB IVRY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-19-1998 LORD OF THE FLIES -- IN 'YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS,' NEIL LABUTE BARES THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT SEXUAL BETRAYAL By BOB IVRY, Staff Writer Date: 08-19-1998, Wednesday Section: YOUR TIME Edition: All Editions --...
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Philadelphia Tribune, The
Story of Lords of the Flies revisited
05/10/2002: 1,797 words, approx. 6 pages
Lee, Rotan E. Philadelphia Tribune, The 05-10-2002 Reading Geoffrey Canada's Fist Stick Knife Gun chilled my bones and stoked the angry coals of my soul. A brutally honest and starkly septic account pf his Bronx childhood, the author's surreal story of a child's life...
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AP News
Amateurs highlighted in Super Bowl ads
2/5/2007: 824 words, approx. 3 pages
Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.Starting in the first quarter, a goofy spot for Doritos showing a hapless driver distracted by a...
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Amateur ads follow Super Bowl tradition
2/5/2007: 824 words, approx. 3 pages
Along with the trademark Clydesdales, talking animals and high-end computer graphics, there was a new entry this year in the annual showdown of advertisers in the Super Bowl: amateurs.Starting in the first quarter, a goofy spot for Doritos showing a hapless driver distracted by a...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by John Peter
1,880 words, approx. 6 pages
Fables are those narratives which leave the impression that their purpose was anterior, some initial thesis or contention which they are apparently concerned to embody and express in concrete terms. Fables always give the impression that they were preceded by the conclusion which it is their function to draw…. (p. 577) [At the end of Lord of the Flies the] abrupt return to childhood, to insignificance, underscores the argument of the narrative: that Evil is inherent in the human mind itself, whatever...
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Critical Essay by James R. Baker
1,477 words, approx. 5 pages
Lord of the Flies is on the decline. (p. 447) It is natural to tire of familiar things and to pursue instead the excitements which come with novelty and the sense of discovery. But I wish to argue in behalf of Lord of the Flies, not because I have discovered something startling and new to abash the jaded scholars …, but because the decline of Golding's book is a symptom of a dangerous tendency in our academic and intellectual life…. [All] of humanity is involved in explosive crisis and ...
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Critical Essay by Peter Green
1,477 words, approx. 5 pages
Golding is, primarily, a religious novelist: his central theme is not the relationship of man to man but the relationship of man, the individual, to the universe; and through the universe, to God. The symbolism of his novels is, in essence, theological. Both Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors are concerned with the primal loss of innocence. Pincher Martin, as the last chapter proves, explicitly concerns the sufferings of a dead man who has created his own Purgatory. It is a moral axiom of Golding's...
 
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Criticism on Lord of the Flies
4,448 words, approx. 15 pages
Discusses the theme, characters, and plot of Lord of the flies in substantial detail.
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Essay Grade: 86%
Evil Created by Humans or Systems?
3,263 words, approx. 11 pages
Golding's novel "The Lord of the Flies" reflects upon human society and shows how, if put the ideal situation, the evil held inside man can emerge from the depths in which it is contained and come to light in the most alarming and upsetting ways. The two major sets of systems in the novel are the ones in place during Ralph democratic rule, and the ones in place during Jacks dictatorial rule. In both cases the systems within either end in failure, or are distorted into a blatant form of evil.
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Essay Grade: 91%
Lord of the Flies and King Lear Comparative Essay
2,905 words, approx. 10 pages
Essay compares the themes and symbolisms in the novels of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare and "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding.
 


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