“It was simply what seemed sensible for me to write after ...

"It was simply what seemed sensible for me to write after the war when everyone was thanking God they weren't Nazis. I'd seen enough to realize that every single one of us could be Nazis."

---- William Golding

The Lord of the Flies

Author and Context Introduction

William Golding

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Genre: Loss of Innocence

The Lord of the Flies

What's with that title? It was published in It's about a large group of English schoolboys

marooned on an island during a horrible, worldwide nuclear war. The novel explores the question of the basic nature of man.

The Lord of the Flies

This novel is an allegory

An allegory has two levels of meaning: One literal ? what is actually happening One symbolic ? what does it really mean

The Lord of the Flies

Literally about boys stranded on an island

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