Golding's experiences in World War Two, which can be seen as a struggle between two very different forms of power, contributed very much to way the novel was written and explain why this theme was ...

The Lord of the Flies How does Golding show this? Jack uses a pig's head as an offering to the Beast. Simon hallucinates that the head is talking to him. Golding calls it the Lord of the Flies ...

When I saw that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was turning 70, I bought myself a new copy. I hadn’t read it for a while — 30 years, give or take — and I wondered what its effects ...

Golding uses an image of deadness and waste ... Using the skills you have learned and revised, try answering the Lord of the Flies question. Time yourself and make sure you are meeting the ...

The BBC's Lord of the Flies series receives a major filming and cast update, along with a famous composer signing on to provide the score. William Golding's 1954 novel, which follows a group of ...

It's a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we'll have fun." When writing Lord of the Flies, Golding was thinking of one such book in particular. The Coral Island by RM Ballantyne was ...

Lord of the Flies is an iconic 1950s story from William Golding of a group of young schoolchildren who find themselves stranded on a tropical island with no adults, following a deadly plane crash.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding looks at the dark side of humanity as a group of boys turn against one another in the face of an imagined enemy. Characters Lord of the Flies focuses on a ...