A review of "Lord of the Flies"

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, an adventure and suspense story, is written in 1857. The story sets on an deserted Pacific coral island. A group of school boys are marooned on this island after a plane crash on a trip to Australia. The story begins with a large number of school boys on an uninhabited tropical island and two of the elder boys who have leadership qualities compete to achieve a semblance …

…Ralph represents democratic societies while he tries to hold a civil society together where every man is allowed personal freedom of thought and actions and Jack represents dictators in the world who seek to establish a society wherein a person is told that only if he contributes to making his country the most powerful on Earth may be important as an individual. Lord of the Flies is a novel exploring the disintegration of a society.