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You're implying Golding based it on experience on how unsupervised children really behave, but in fact he made it all up. William Golding was my father's Engli
by onion2k 10mo ago
You're implying Golding based it on experience on how unsupervised children really behave, but in fact he made it all up.
William Golding was my father's English teacher at school (prior to publication of Lord of the Flies). According to my father, when people talked to Golding at the time, it wasn't based on real children but it definitely was based on what he believed children would be capable of.
- DoctorOetker 10mo ago> [...] but it definitely was based on what he believed children would be capable of. Also Known As "[...] but in fact he made it all up."
- Andrex 10mo agoI take it as a morality tale that applies to all of humans generally and less an indictment of a specific age range. But I may be in the minority it seems.
- marcellus23 10mo agoI think that's clearly the way to interpret the novel. The idea that you could even debunk a piece of allegorical fiction is silly. It would be like trying to make a point by claiming that the tale of the scorpion and the frog was made up, or The Metamorphosis.
- bondarchuk 10mo agoWow, it's almost as if we were dealing with a piece of fiction.