Resources
Cliffs Notes study guide
Spark Notes study guide
Course Hero study guide
BBC study guide
William Golding
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983 lecture
William Golding: the man who wrote Lord of the Flies at the Guardian
William Golding on the surprising optimism of Lord of the Flies
Extra Reading
The real lesson of the Stanford Prison experiment at The New Yorker
War, peace and the role of power in Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment at PsyBlog
The rise of nuclear fear - how we learned to fear the radiation at Scientific American
Scientists probe human nature - and discover we are good, after all at Scientific American
The real Lord of the Flies - what happened when 6 boys were shipwrecked for 15 months at The Guardian
Lord of the Flies real life story shows how humans are hard wired to help each other at The Conversation
For Teachers
A teacher's guide to Lord of the Flies