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Lord of the Flies

Contents

Context
The Author
Characters
Chapter1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter10
Chapter11
Chapter12
Questions  

 


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Author

William Gerald Golding was born in England in 1911. His family had progressive ideas and his mother was active in the suffragette movement. His father was a schoolmaster at the Marlborough Grammar School and Golding attended this elite private school. He then went to Oxford University where he studied Science following his father's wishes. In his third year, he rebelled and switched to a literary education. During this time he wrote a volume of poems that were published as part of MacMillan's Contemporary Poets Series.

In 1935 he graduated from Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts in English. From then until 1939 he worked as a writer and producer for a small theatrical company in London paying for his living expenses through a job as a Social Worker. In 1939 he began teaching English and Philosophy in Salisbury. Later that year he married Ann Brookfield and they had two children.

During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy. The five years that he spent in the Navy exposed him to the cruelty and savagery of the world and human kind. Coming from a sheltered environment of a private English School, Golding was unprepared for the violence that he witnessed during the war.

After the war, he resumed his teaching career and worked at the same school until 1961. He then took up writing full time and Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was published in 1954. Publishers had initially rejected this manuscript on twenty occasions, and although this was not the first novel he wrote, it was the first to be published.

Golding was a very quick and intense writer, because in 1955 his book The Inheritors was published. This gives an account of how violent, deceitful homosapiens achieved victory over the more gentle Neanderthals.

In 1956 Pincher Martin was published which deals with the survival of a Naval Lieutenant after a shipwreck during World War II. The theme is similar to that portrayed in Lord of the Flies

Golding had books published on a yearly basis after this, right up until his death in 1993.

Golding received many awards among them being the prestigious British Booker Prize Award in 1980 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. He received the C.B.E. and was knighted in 1988.




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