William Golding, Lord of the Flies Review

Overall Rating

Lord of The Flies is a fantastic novel. It's allegorical character makes it faultless. It's truth has a universal significant. No wonder it won a Nobel Prize award.

Religion in the novel never tampered with the animalistic instinct in man. This is shown in jack who wears the cross in his neck. This Christian faith has radically transformed the brutal to the very loving and genial. So Golding's point here is questionable. Man is simply different from man.

William Golding, Lord of the Flies- No government organisation, law, philosophy, science, technology, religion or refinement can convert the beast in man: human nature is simply bestial. This is central to an interpretation of Lord of The Flies. Simon sees the nature of the unfeeling pig's head, he sees man's nature in it but is never to tell his mates. He is the philosopher. Piggy is the rational or scientific type. He is not to last in the story. Ralph who represents good governance becomes the brutes' prey and himself becomes brutal in self-defence. The conch representing the rule of law is shattered.

Lord of the Flies, generally, is a quest into human nature. IT'S REALLY VERY ILLUMINATING.