English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1613 short lesson, about 20 seconds
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
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The idea
William Golding's first novel, Lord of the Flies, of nineteen fifty-four, strands a group of British schoolboys on an uninhabited island, where their attempts to govern themselves descend into savagery. Golding won the Nobel Prize in nineteen eighty-three.
In practice
Boys alone; order collapses.
Where people slip
The island is an allegory of human nature.
Your place on the trail
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