Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, 192 pages. William Golding describes the theme of the book: “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system, however apparently logical and respectable.” A group of English boys is marooned on an uninhabited island without adult super­vision and authority when their plane crashes. They...