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Lord of the Flies reveals Golding as the supreme revoker, the most obviousabrogator in modern literature, employing the dark discoveries of our centuryto disclaim the vapid innocence of its predecessor. The target is R. M.Ballantyne's The Coral Island and Golding points up the ironic contrastby lifting even the names of his boys from the earlier work. Ballantyne'sbook could be used as a document in the history of ideas, reflecting asit does a Victorian euphoria, a conviction that the world is a rationalplace where problems arise so that sensible, decent men can solve them.God has his place in this world but his adversary is pleasingly absentand, with him, the sin which is his hold on humanity. (pp. 139-40)
Lord of the Flies was conceived in a very different moral landscape andGolding himself tells us that the.....
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