Lord of the Flies Chapter by Chapter
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
One day I was sitting on one side of the fireplace and my wife was sitting on the other, and i suddenly said to her, “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write a story about some boys on an island showing how they would really behave, being boy and not little saints as they usually are in children’s books” and she said “That’s a first class idea, you write it.” So I went ahead and wrote it.
He did and experiment with boy’s class for the whole hour there would be no rules and no punishment for doing bad things. He said it resulted in chaos and violence and riots.
“The evil of human nature”
If you scale down the group of boys they are more representative of society.
Not using both girls and boys meant that that he didn’t need to include information about other things happening so he could focus more on “the evil of human nature”
ABOUT WILLIAM GOLDING * British Novelist * Born in Cornwall, 1911, died 1993 * Studied science and English at Oxford (one of the most prestigious universities) * Fought in Royal Navy during WW2, firsthand knowledge of evil of human nature * Participated in invasion of Normandy on D-Day * At war’s end returned to teaching and writing * Earned Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) (most prestigious prize you can get, that’s why the novel is a Classic)
Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded every year since 1901. Alfred Nobel wished that the prize would be awarded to author whose outstanding work as a whole evidences a lasting commitment to idealism and more recent the championing of human rights.
“For his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today” (1983)
Winners of the prize: * Seamus Heaney - TS Elliot * William Golding - Pearl Buck * John Steinbeck - George B Shaw * Winston Churchill - William Yeats * Rudyard Kipling
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One day I was sitting on one side of the fireplace and my wife was sitting on the other, and i suddenly said to her, “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write a story about some boys on an island showing how they would really behave, being boy and not little saints as they usually are in children’s books” and she said “That’s a first class idea, you write it.” So I went ahead and wrote it.
He did and experiment with boy’s class for the whole hour there would be no rules and no punishment for doing bad things. He said it resulted in chaos and violence and riots.
“The evil of human nature”
If you scale down the group of boys they are more representative of society.
Not using both girls and boys meant that that he didn’t need to include information about other things happening so he could focus more on “the evil of human nature”
ABOUT WILLIAM GOLDING * British Novelist * Born in Cornwall, 1911, died 1993 * Studied science and English at Oxford (one of the most prestigious universities) * Fought in Royal Navy during WW2, firsthand knowledge of evil of human nature * Participated in invasion of Normandy on D-Day * At war’s end returned to teaching and writing * Earned Nobel Prize in Literature (1983) (most prestigious prize you can get, that’s why the novel is a Classic)
Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded every year since 1901. Alfred Nobel wished that the prize would be awarded to author whose outstanding work as a whole evidences a lasting commitment to idealism and more recent the championing of human rights.
“For his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today” (1983)
Winners of the prize: * Seamus Heaney - TS Elliot * William Golding - Pearl Buck * John Steinbeck - George B Shaw * Winston Churchill - William Yeats * Rudyard Kipling
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