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Background to Lord of the Flies. Part One: The Author. Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding. Golding graduated from Oxford University. He began by studying science, but graduated with a degree in literature. William Golding. He wrote poetry. &. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Background to Lord of the Flies
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Part One:The Author
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Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding
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Golding graduated from Oxford University
He began by studying science, but graduated with a degree in literature.
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William Golding
He wrote poetry
&Worked in amateur theatre for a while
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William Golding
Eventually he become a teacher at an all boys school…
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William GoldingWhen World War II began in 1939, Golding joined the British Royal Navy
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William Golding
After the war, Golding began his first novel Lord of the Flies, which was published in 1954
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Wills
Lord of the Flies was a great success and allowed Golding to retire from teaching.
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Wills
Golding surprised many when he received the highest honor in literature in 1983 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize.
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Golding’s winning the award speaks to his great accomplishments in literature and to what he always hoped to achieve with his writing:
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“The purpose of writing is to understand humanity”
According to the dictionary, HUMANITY is defined as: “the quality and condition of being human” or “human nature”
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This is a bold goal for an author to strive to accomplish…
As readers and critics of Lord of the Flies, we must decide for ourselves if Golding accomplishes this goal or if he fails.
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Part Two:Influences on
Lord of the Flies
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Influence One:The Coral Island
• The Coral Island was a popular adventure book that Golding had read to his sons.
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The Coral Island
It was a lighthearted adventure tale about boys stranded on a deserted, tropical island
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The Coral Island
Major characters were:
Jack
and Ralph
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The Coral Island
The story involved:
Hunting PigsBuried Treasure
And Pirates
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The Coral Island
Most of all… A Happy Ending
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The Coral IslandThis book inspired Golding
with the plot involving boys stranded on a deserted island, but he wondered…
“What would really happen if boys were stranded on an island with no adults?”
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As you will soon find out, in Golding’s version, the good guys might not always
win…
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Influence Two:
WAR
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Golding was unprepared for the violence he witnessed during the war…
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His experience in the war exposed him to savagery and cruelty in the world, which changed his outlook on life.
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This attitude is evident when reading Lord of the Flies.
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Influence Three:
Nuclear Holocaust
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Lord of the Flies was published during a period of time known as the COLD WAR
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The Cold War was a period of intense conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, although no official war was ever declared
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Nevertheless, many people at the time believed that a nuclear war would occur which might destroy the world
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In fact, the boys ended up on the island in Lord of the Flies because they were being evacuated from England due to a nuclear war breaking out.
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Influence Three:
Teaching
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Golding’s experiences as a teacher allowed him to observe and understand boys around the age of the characters in Lord of the Flies and many of the characters were based on his students
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His interaction with boys this age made him question whether humans were naturally inclined to obey rules or whether it was institutions such as:
School
Government
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• - that kept humans cultured and obedient
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Golding began to wonder if human’s natural state was:
Savage
rather than
Civilized
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Which brings us to…
Part Three:Themes in Lord of
the Flies
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The first theme is:
Civilized vs.
Savage
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Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between
REASON and
INSTINCT
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REASON is believed to be THINKING, then ACTING
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INSTINCT is believed to be ACTING, without THINKING
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Golding believes that CIVILIZED people stop to REASON
While SAVAGE people follow their INSTINCTS
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Golding also believed that there were two competing forces that exist within all humans…
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The desire to live by rules and morals
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VERSUS
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The desire to get what we want no matter what it takes
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• Ultimately Golding decided that people were instinctively evil and a society of law and order was need to protect humans from each other.
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Golding believed if it were ultimately up to Man, if they had complete freedom, people would naturally become cruel, savage and barbaric.
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The boys on the island in Lord of the Flies have complete freedom and the novel becomes a study on what will happen when children are put in this situation…
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The second theme is:
Loss of Innocence
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Children are often thought to be INNOCENT, meaning that they have no evil in them until it is introduced to it from an outside influence…
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The children in this book progress from being well-behaved and orderly…
…to cruel, blood-thirsty hunters
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However, no one corrupts the children on the island. It is something they do to themselves.
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Golding suggests that with no set of rules to keep the children in-line they will eventually unleash the evil and savagery that has always existed in them.
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What this implies is that civilization (rules and order of society) can control,
but never wipe out the inner evil that exists within all human beings.
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There are many other themes and important concepts in
Lord of the Flies but hopefully this introduction prepared you for some of
the issues this novel deals with.
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