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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. The novel, which was Goldman’s debut, was generally well received. It was named in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 41 on the editor’s list, and 25 on the reader’s list. In 2003, it was listed at number 70 on the BBC’s The Big Read poll, and in 2005 Time magazine named it as one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005, and included it in its list of the 100 Best Young-Adult Books of All Time. Popular reading in schools, especially in the English-speaking world, Lord of the Flies was ranked third in the nation’s favourite books from school in a 2016 UK poll.
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
The novel is set on a remote island in the South Atlantic Ocean called Island of the Alive. The book is set in the fictional Year of the Pig (978), and the main characters are the eponymous Lord and his companions, who have come to the island looking for a new home. The book was written by the author as a young adult, and the plot was conceived during a stay on the island. A version of the novel was serialized in The Daily Mail from 31 December 1953 to 28 January 1954. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom in 1954 by Collins, who republished the novel in paperback in 1976 under the title of Lord of the Flies. The novel first became a mass-market bestseller in the United States in 1960 with the title changed to The Lord of the Flies.
What is the plot of Lord of the Flies?
The plot of Lord of the Flies follows the adventures of the eponymous Lord, and his companions, as they attempt to survive on an island after their plane crashes on the island. The novel is divided into twenty-two chapters, each published as its own short story, and a preface. The novel begins on a summer’s day on the island of Great Britain, with a group of boys on a school trip to the island of Sennen. The plane carrying the boys goes out over the sea, and all but one of them gets killed. The lone survivor, the Prince of Wales, and his companions are forced to find a new way to survive, and they end up surviving on an uninhabited island. There, they discover that the islanders, whom they call “the savages,” have no word for them. They eventually learn that the islanders had once been a civilization, which had disappeared some thousands of years before, leaving only a tomb-like structure called a “ruin.”
The theme of Lord of the Flies
The theme of Lord of the Flies is the tension between individualism and groupthink, between empathy and remaining rational, between morality and immorality. The novel presents examples of how conformity to groupthink can lead to various forms of disaster, including extreme violence, the breakdown of society, and the extinction of the group. Individualism and groupthink have long been subjects of debate in the social and political sciences. Friedrich Hayek, the author of The Road to Serfdom, argued that groupthink, in which most people follow the lead of those who have the best reason to know what to do, is the result of excessive individualism.
Summary
The novel begins with the group of school boys coming upon a small island populated by savages. The boys name the island after a recently deceased king, and the islanders respond by saying that the island was once a “ruin.” The boys are soon captured, taken to the “ruin,” where they are soon discovered to be the only survivors of a tribe that had once lived on the island. After a period of adjustment, the islanders bring the boys to the ruins to show them what used to be their homes. The ruins are filled with signs of the former civilization, and the boys begin to realize that their situation is not exactly normal. The islanders, meanwhile, are more than willing to accept help from the boys, and the relationship between them grows stronger with each passing day. The group, meanwhile, is faced with several problems. One is that they have no way to survive on the island without the help of the natives, while the other is that they have no leaders as the boys are all too young to assume leadership roles.
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