Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

This literary unit will engage students in textual inquiry using political, moral, and religious allegory. Symbolism and allegory run rampid in this fast-paced tale of human survival and society creation. With no adults on the island, the boys must establish a cohesive society before they meet their ultimate demise. Read the following exerpt from Wikipedia.org for more information:

Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 70 on the American Library Association's list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000.[1] In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. (Wikipedia.org)

Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding's first novel, and although it was not a great success at the time — selling fewer than three thousand copies in the United States during 1955 before going out of print — it soon went on to become a bestseller, and by the early 1960s was required reading in many schools and colleges. It was adapted to film in 1963 by Peter Brook, and again in 1990 by Harry Hook. (Wikipedia.org)

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