As the reality of their situation sets in, the boys attempt to establish control and their world gradually descends into brutal savagery. When a plane crashes on a remote island, a group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. This new educational edition provides supplementary material, chapter summaries, discussion questions and additional teaching resources to help guide students and support teachers throughout the text. As dystopian stories like The Hunger Games and Battle Royale surge in popularity, this haunting tale of a group of young boys stranded on a desert island still captivates schoolchildren around the world, raising timeless and profound questions about how easily society can slip into chaos and savagery when rules and order have been abandoned. First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognized as a classic, one of the most celebrated of all modern novels.First published in 1954, William Golding’s debut novel, now a classic, is a stark story of survival, probing the depths of human nature, and what happens when civilization collapses.
Their games take on a horrible significance, and before long the well-behaved party of schoolboys has turned into a tribe of faceless, murderous savages.
The boys’ delicate sense of order fades, and their childish fears are transformed into something deeper and more primitive. In this, his first novel, William Golding gave the traditional adventure story an ironic, devastating twist. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued.
Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.
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