Crtique on Lord of the Flies

Lord of The Flies is one of the best-known books of the post-war years. A group of young boys, the oldest of whom is twelve, and the youngest six, are marooned on a desert island, and almost immediately a battle for supremacy takes place among the principal characters. Violence and death follow. The schoolboys are in a plane which has been shot down during what the reader assumes is a war set in the near …

…to The Coral Island (which is a utopian novel) is completely ironic. Just as these boys tried to find inner peace and utopia on this island, which in appearance can be deceiving, the same is desired from all individuals. The only problem lies here: there is no such place, because even when found, this utopia begins to twist into a repulsive mirror image, where there is nothing left there that could remotely be considered utopian.