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Lord Of The Flies: About The Author - College Papers

Lord Of The Flies: About The Author

William Golding the author of Lord of the Flies was born in Great
Britain in 1911 and throughout almost his entire lifetime, he has lived and
witnessed the true evil within all men. During his childhood the first
World War beginning in 1914, and was followed many years later by the
savagery of World War II. He has seen powerful dictators rise and fall; he
has witnessed entire nations crumble, the massive slaughter of the
Holocaust come and go, weapons of death destroy entire cities, and he has
lived through a time when the world was divided in half and only a single
spark was needed to set off what was needed for world destruction. It was
during this time that Golding wrote the Lord of ...

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desolate island located probably somewhere in the Pacific near
the first atomic bomb detonation. This land was pure and basic; it was a
Garden of Eden, that is, until man arrived. Upon the boys' arrival (a plane
crash), a scar was left on the island. It was a plane, an offspring of
man's creation, that disturbed nature's beauty. Golding continuously
showed how the setting was terrorized by man. Man was not even there for
one week and they have already destroyed half of an island that nature took
years to create, and these men were mere children. Just think what real men
have done to the entire world during the course of history. Lands have
been raped, forests destroyed, and air condemned unbreathable. It is pure
evil.
Golding, however, did not only use the setting and its destruction
to demonstrate society's faults, he also used the characters in Lord of the
Flies as a representation of the character and the evil behavior within
society. Golding suggests that there are ...

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