A recurring theme in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies , is that man
savage at heart, always ultimately reverting back to evil and a primitive nature. Golding
believes that man has no control over his own destiny because of fear. Golding uses
properties of setting, characters, and their behavior and the events of the book, Lord of
the Flies, to build and support his vision of reality.
William Golding was born in Great Britain in 1911 and throughout his whole life
he has witnessed the true evil in man. As an adult he lived through and was in World War
II. He saw many dictators come and go and he witnessed entire nations crumble, and
weapons that could destroy entire cities. Golding grew up in the time of the Holocaust
and saw many evil dictators rise and fall. This is why Golding's vision of reality is that all
man is savage at heart.
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Lord of the FliesHe lived in a time when the whole world was divided and a little
spark was all that was needed to set off world destruction. It was at this time that Golding
wrote Lord of the Flies, the title itself means true evil and destruction. Translated into
Hebrew it is Beelzebub and it means devil.
Lord of the Flies is a story of a group of boys from different backgrounds that
become stranded on an isolated and uncharted island when their plane crashes. As the
boys try to unite to try to become rescued they begin to separate and a tribe of savage
hunters is formed. After a while the boys lose all sense of civilized behavior. This is when
you realize that the boys have lost all manners and civility that had been instilled as they
where raised, thus showing the savage...