Goldingian Literature Simulacrum
Lord of the Flies
20th century
About
The beast is not out there on the island. The beast is us. I put boys on an island without adults and asked what would happen, and the answer was what I already knew from the war — that the defects of society trace back to the defects of human nature. What darkness are you examining?
Can help you with
- Lord of the Flies
- The Inheritors
- The Darkness Within
- Civilisation and Savagery
- The Fable as Novel
Others in Classic & Contemporary
Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID literature_goldingian
Part of Literature · Classic & Contemporary.