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Lord of the Flies
William Golding
4.17 (150 Reviews)
Politics
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Overview of Lord of the Flies

Stranded schoolboys descend into savagery on a deserted island - a Nobel Prize-winning exploration of humanity's darkest instincts. Banned yet beloved, this 1954 classic influenced "The Hunger Games" and continues challenging readers: what veneer of civilization might you shed when nobody's watching?

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Innocence Lost: A Paradise Turned Nightmare

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What happens when the thin veneer of civilization is stripped away? A group of British schoolboys, evacuated during wartime, crash-land on an uninhabited tropical island with no adult supervision. Paradise quickly becomes a nightmare as their initial excitement-"This belongs to us!"-transforms into something darker. Ralph, fair-haired and athletic, finds a conch shell and uses it to summon survivors scattered across the island. The boys establish a primitive democracy, electing Ralph as chief over Jack Merridew, the authoritarian leader of a choir group. Ralph sets three priorities: maintaining a signal fire for rescue, building shelters, and having fun. But troubling signs emerge almost immediately. When Jack encounters a trapped piglet, he draws his knife but hesitates-"the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh" momentarily overwhelms him. Red-faced with embarrassment, he vows, "Next time there would be no mercy." This hesitation marks a crucial threshold between civilization and savagery. Meanwhile, a small boy with a mulberry-colored birthmark mentions seeing a "beastie" in the forest, planting the first seeds of fear. When the boys build their signal fire, their excitement leads to recklessness-the blaze spreads uncontrolled, and in the aftermath, they realize the boy with the birthmark is missing. Their first casualty, sacrificed to their own carelessness. The silence that follows is the sound of innocence beginning to crack.

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The Growing Divide: Order Versus Chaos

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Fear's Poison: The Beast Takes Form

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Power's Seduction: Jack's Tribal Rebellion

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Sacrifice of Innocence: Simon's Revelation

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Civilization's Last Stand: Reason Extinguished

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Darkness and Light: The Hunt and Rescue

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