William Golding'S Lord Of The Flies: Fill & Download for Free

Author William Golding addressed this question directly:Girls say to me, very reasonably, 'why isn't it a bunch of girls? Why did you write this about a bunch of boys?'Well, my reply is I was once a little boy - I have been a brother, a father, I am going to be a grandfather. I have never been a sister, or a mother, or a grandmother. That's one answer.Another answer is of course to say that if you - as it were - scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more ike a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be. Don't ask me why, and this is a terrible thing to say because I'm going to be chased from hell to breakfast by all the women who talk about equality - this is nothing to do with equality at all.I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. But one thing you can't do with them is take a bunch of them and boil them down, so to speak, into a set of little girls who would then become a kind of image of civilisation, of society.The other thing is - why aren't they little boys AND little girls? Well, if they'd been little boys and little girls, we being who we are, sex would have raised its lovely head, and I didn't want this to be about sex. Sex is too trivial a thing to get in with a story like this, which was about the problem of evil and the problem of how people are to live together in a society, not just as lovers or man and wife.”While you and I might agree or disagree with Golding at varying points in this passage, I believe he was sincere in this response, albeit simplistic and less observant about human nature as compared to the great, timeless novel itself.Interested readers might also enjoy this related question:How would William Golding's Lord of the Flies be different if the kids were a mixed group of girls and boys?

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, has a basic science error that undermines the book’s key metaphor.Piggy is the nerdy, bookish character who represents civilization and is eventually killed by his classmates, who revert to savagery. At one point Piggy lights a fire using his glasses to concentrate the sun’s rays.His glasses are a symbol of science and civilization.When the boys steal and break Piggy’s glasses it symbolizes their complete descent into barbarity.Piggy had myopia, as it states in chapter 11: "Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia."Myopia is shortsightedness, meaning he could not see objects at a distance. The concave lenses needed to correct myopia are incapable of focusing light to a point, thus incapable of starting a fire. You can only start a fire with glasses for people who are far-sighted, which are convex.This was an error on the part of the author. It doesn’t exactly unravel the plot, but it does take away the central metaphor of the book.Addendum

ESTJ - Lord of the Flies (William Golding)ISTJ - The Collector (John Fowles)ESFJ - Eat, Pray, Love (Elizabeth Gilbert)ISFJ - The White Queen (Philippa Gregory)ESTP - American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)ISTP - Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)ESFP - The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)ISFP - Candy (Luke Davies)ENTJ - War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)*INTJ - I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)ENFJ - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya AngelouINFJ - Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)ENTP - Fight Club (Chuck Palaniuk)**INTP - Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)ENFP - Stardust (Neil Gaiman)INFP - The Neverending Story (Michael Ende)*Thank you to Calum Webber-Smith for suggesting War and Peace! It was a way better choice than mine.**Still trying to decide between “Fight Club” or “The Infinite Jest” for ENTP, to be honest.