Lord of the Flies | Suggested Reading

Lord of the Flies What Do I Read Next?

Euripides's ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae, (405 BC), whose influence on Lord of the Flies is widely acknowledged, dramatizes the influence of the worship of Dionysus on the city of Thebes. In the play, King Pentheus tries to stop the Bacchantes' Dionysian ceremony and as a result is taken for a wild animal and killed by his mother.

Just as Lord of the Flies is a post-World Wax II response to R. M Ballantyne's The Coral Island, so Goldling's next novel, The Inheritors (1955), is a realistic response to H. G. Wells's optimistic theory of history as propounded in his Outline of History.

Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945), like Lord of the Flies, is an allegory influenced by its author's wax experiences, and one that probes the nature of man and his attempts to form a just society.

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