Biography & Lord of the Flies

By Alina Ptushkina, Group 34-H, Naukova Zmina Lycee

Kyiv 2011

Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993)

British novelistBritish novelist

PoetPoet

Playwright Playwright

Nobel Prize for Literature laureateNobel Prize for Literature laureate

William grew up at his family home in Marlborough, Wiltshire.

Later that year his first book, Poems, was published in London by Macmillan & Co, through the help of his Oxford friend, the anthroposophist Adam Bittleston.

Golding married Ann Brookfield on 30 September 1939 and they had two children, Judy and David.

• In 1985, Golding and his wife moved to Tullimaar House, Cornwall, where he died of heart failure on 19 June 1993.

• He was buried in the village churchyard at Bowerchalke, South Wiltshire (near the Hampshire and Dorset county boundaries).

Genre - Allegorical novel

Publication date - 17 September 1954

Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is about a group of British schoolboys stuck on a desert island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

The only survivors are The only survivors are male children male children below age below age 1313

"Piggy“, Ralph and Jack "Piggy“, Ralph and Jack find a find a conchconch which Ralph which Ralph uses as a horn to bring all uses as a horn to bring all the survivors to one areathe survivors to one area

RalphRalph is voted chief, losing only the votes of Jack's fellow choirboys. He has two goals: have fun, and work toward rescue by maintaining a constant fire signal

• JackJack organizes his choir group into the group's "hunters", who are responsible for hunting for meat

• SimonSimon finds the head of the hunters' dead pig on a stick, left as an offering to the beast. Simon envisions the pig head, swarming with scavenging flies, as the "Lord of the Flies" …

• RalphRalph embodies good intentions in the implementation of reason. Ralph's refusal to resort to violence throughout the novel is counterpoised by Jack's inherent love of violence.

• PiggyPiggy is the intellectual with poor eyesight, a weight problem, and asthma. Piggy represents an adult figure and the rational world

• Jack Merridew Jack Merridew Jack epitomizes the worst aspects of human nature when unrepressed or untempered by society

• RogerRoger, at first, is a simple "bigun" "bigun" who's having fun during his stay on the island. Later he becomes the executioner and torturer of Jack's tribe.

• SimonSimon is a character who represents peace and tranquility and positivity, with some references to Jesus Christ

• The conch The conch symbolizes democracy and, like Ralph, civility and order within the group.

• The Lord of the Flies The Lord of the Flies is literally a pig's head that has been cut off by Jack and left as an offering to the "beast“.

• The name "Lord of the Lord of the FliesFlies" is the literal English translation of BeelzebubBeelzebub, a demonic figure that is often considered synonymous with SatanSatan.