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Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is

Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is anovel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is about agroup of British schoolboys stuck on adeserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999. Published in 1954, Lord of the Flies was Golding’s first novel, in response to The Coral Island. Background It is very subtly indicated that the book takes place in the midst of an unspecified nuclear war, perhaps implicitly relating the savagery of the children characters to the warfare of adults. Some of the characters marooned are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader. Most (with the exception of the choirboys) appear never to have encountered each other before. The book portrays their descent into savagery; left to themselves in a paradisaical country, far from modern civilization, the well-educated children regress to aprimitive state. At an allegorical level, the central theme is the conflicting impulses toward civilization—live by rules, peacefully and in harmony—and towards the will to power. Different subjects include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. How these play out, and how different people feel the influences of these, forms a major subtext of Lord of the Flies.