Lord Of The Flies: About The Author
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William Golding the author of Lord of the Flies was born in Great
Britain in 1911 and throughout almost his entire lifetime, he has lived and
witnessed the true evil within all men. During his childhood the first
World War beginning in 1914, and was followed many years later by the
savagery of Wor ....
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.... and it is about the true evil
possessed within us all.
Golding uses the property of setting in Lord of the Flies as the
first hint of the evil within man and society. The entire book is set upon
a beautiful desolate island located probably somewhere in the Pacific near
the first atomic bomb detonation. This land was pure and basic; it was a
Garden of Eden, that is, until man arrived. Upon the boys' arrival (a plane
crash), a scar was left on the island. It was a plane, an offspring of
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