Background Info
· written in 1954
· “Lord of the Flies” is Hebrew for
Beelzebub, another name for the Devil
· William Golding, Britain, 1911- 1993
· Written after WWII and the atomic
bomb
· In, The Lord of the Flies,
Golding is making the statement that we cannot escape our violent tendencies,
and without social order, we devolve into a state of chaos.
