![]() ![]() I would have thought, says their rescuer, that a pack of British boys would have been able to put a better show. The line is delivered without irony. A third is about to be killed when they are rescued. (The Holocaust was proof enough of that.) Democracy quickly gives way to Fascism and an idyllic island (potentially paradise) turns into a horrific nightmare. The evil is already there within them and the line of demarcation between civilization and barbarity is wafer thin. The Lord of the Flies has been immensely popular, especially with young people, ever since it was published in 1954.Ĭhoir boys, aged 12 to 13, turn savage when their plane crashes during a nuclear war and they are stranded on a deserted island and there are no adults to check them. ![]() William Golding described his powerful parable in two ways: firstly, as a debate about the very roots of English society, and then, as a lament for the lost childhood of the world. ![]()
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