"Lord of the Flies" By William Golding

Lord of the Flies, one of William Golding's many novels, is a well written, well thought out novel that depicts the evils of human nature. This allegory's primary implication is that what we have come to call today's society and civilization itself "is, at best, no more than skin deep" (Boyd, 7). Golding's initial plan was to create a realistic exemplum of Ballantyne's The Coral Island. As he said in The Meaning of it All, "I think [Lord of the Flies] is in fact a realistic view of the Ballantyne situation" (Golding: 19). Although it ...