When I saw that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was turning 70, I bought myself a new copy. I hadn’t read it for a while — 30 years, give or take — and I wondered what its effects ...

William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in 1954. A group of boys are stranded on a deserted island after their plane crashes. There are no adults and the boys struggle to live ...

At the time when William Golding was writing Lord of the Flies, Britain was a very different society. Although World War Two had ended in 1945, the after-effects were still being felt. For ...

Language refers to the choices of style and vocabulary made by the author. When analysing the language that William Golding uses you should think about: ...

Lord of the Flies by William Golding looks at the dark side of humanity as a group of boys turn against one another in the face of an imagined enemy. Characters Lord of the Flies focuses on a ...