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Lord of the Flies Study Guide

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by William Golding
About 93 pages (27,811 words)
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Critical Essay #2

In the following excerpt, Slayton finds Lord of the Flies to be a parable about modern civilization and human morality, and describes Golding's literary techniques.

Lord of the Flies is William Golding's parable of life in the latter half of the twentieth century, the nuclear age, when society seems to have reached technological maturity while human morality is still prepubescent. Whether or not one agrees with the pessimistic philosophy, the idiocentric psychology or the fundamentalist theology espoused by Golding in the novel, if one is to use literature as a "window on the world," this work is one of the panes through which one should look.

The setting for Lord of the Flies is in the literary tradition of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Johann Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson, and like these earlier.....

This is a free excerpt of 135 words. This section contains 2,409 words. This study guide contains 27,811 words (approx. 93 pages at 300 words per page).

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