Intro to LOF

William Golding 

1911-1993Photocredit Jerry Bauer

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Major Prizes Booker Prize for Rites of Passage (1980)

Nobel Prize (1983)

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Literary works• Lord of the Flies (1954)• The Inheritors (1955)• Pincer Martin (1956)• Free Fall (1959)• The Spire (1964)• The Pyramid (1967)• The Scorpion God (1971)• Darkness Invisible (1979)• Rites of Passage (1980)• The Paper Man (1984)• Close Quarters (1987)• Fire Down Below (1989) http://www.monmouth.com

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Golding at the Nobel Ceremony, 10 December 1983

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Doris Lessing 1919 -

Kingsley Amis 1922-1995

Iris Murdoch 1919-1999

“The basic point my generation discovered about man was that there was more evil in him than could be accounted for simply by social pressures.” William Golding

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“There were things done during that period from which I still have to avert my mind less I should be physically sick. They were not done by the headhunters of New Guinea or by some primitive tribe in the Amazon. They were done skillfully, coldly by educated men, doctors, lawyers, by men with a tradition of civilization behind them, to beings of their own kind.”

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The tradition of utopian/dystopian fiction

• Some important texts:

– Thomas More Utopia (1516)– Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels (1726)– Mary Shelley The Last Man (1826)– Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)– George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)– Angela Carter Heroes and Villains (1969)

Lord of the Flies (1954)

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Lord of the Flies (1954):

Rejected by 21 publishers before being accepted by Faber & Faber

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Scene Location

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“The boy with fair hair lowered himself the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way towards the lagoon.”

The Blue Lagoon H. de Vere Stacpoole

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Disciplined Disorganised

United. Divided

Make shelters, utensils, a boat Fail to make anything

Discover useful plants etc. Don’t discover anything

Faith in God Paganism

Evil externalised Evil internalised

Some important differences between

Coral Island and Lord of the Flies

Golding’s Introduction to Lord of the Flies

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