Essays on William Golding

The relationship between art and reality is complex. Sir William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel that explores many complex themes about human nature and society. The novel’s allegorical style allows for many interpretations with respect to the construction of a new civilization. Its plot allows for a treatise on what would hypothetically occur if teenagers were left to their own devices, without parents or pre-ordained law enforcement to serve as precedent. Through the analysis of the symbols that the story presents, different conclusions can be reached, including opposing ones. Conservatism is presented as being an ideal that ...

Introduction

The four articles in question seek to give insight into the perspective of a how the society thinks and views issues. They are highlighted in the most common aspects in society such as acceptance, status and morality. In addition, the politics, educational and economic issues have their place in how humans think. The essays, in addition, seek to clarify the basis on which the thoughts we encounter daily are premised. At the same time, certain similaritieshave been incorporated in the issues presented. The writers were all acclaimed scholars in the study of the mind, issues in society and the representation ...

The novel Lord of the Flies depicts two paradoxical concepts- the innocence of a child and the darkness of the human heart. In a powerful statement Haynes (1988) mentioned that the author William Golding is able to capture the readers’ attention because of his ability to make them see that the devil does not come out from typical villain characters such as pirates and cannibals, but rather rooted form the darkness of the human heart. The novel is able to portray a realistic metaphor of the adult world, which is filled with hatred and greed. People are forced to kill and threaten ...

Background of the Author

William Golding was born and raised in Cornwall, United Kingdom (UK) in 1911. Having gained education at Marlborough Grammar School and Brasenose College in Oxford, Golding initially received training from his parents for him to become a scientist, yet he focused on English literature instead. Apart from being a writer, Golding also became a musician, sailor, lecturer and schoolmaster, and actor. Golding first published his written works in 1935 – a volume of poems he wrote with the influence of the education he received in Oxford. Bishop Wordsworth’s School gave Golding the opportunity to become a lecturer, although the Second World War cut his ...

This essay is written by William Golding, is a case in point when talking of classification of thinkers. Many people never ponder what William Golding expresses an analysis of his hobby through thinking (Golding 194). He spent a great time of his life developing the classifications and division of the different categories of thinkers. These were classified in to grade-one, two, and three thinking. The effectual use of categorization portrays how things that are very similar could be very different from some point of view. Golding depicts the first category of thinking and he named it grade-three thinking, which he says ...

‘Lord of the flies’ is a much admired novel, written by William Golding. William Golding is a well known novelist who was awarded noble prize and is recipient of several other awards for his contribution in the literature. Goldwin was ranked third among 50 greatest English novelists. This paper intends to discuss William Goldwin’s best novel, ‘Lord of the Flies’ along with discussing other related aspects of the novel. ‘Lord of the flies’ is a tale of a group of boys who were left high and dry as their pilotless plane lands on an island during a war. Boys were without any ...

William Golding came of age during one of the times of greatest disillusionment in human history: the years between 1910 and 1950. These decades featured not one but two world wars and saw the advent of biological weapons, with the nerve gas that wreaked havoc on servicemen in World War I, as well as the ultimate terror of nuclear weapons, that ended World War II. In between the wars was one of the largest influenza epidemics in recorded history, an economic depression without peer (until the latter 2000’s, anyway). After World War II, the world quickly divided into ...