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 novelist

Poet

Playwright

Nobel 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 is about a
group of British schoolboys
stuck on a desert island who
try to govern themselves,
with disastrous results.
The only survivors are
male children below age
13

"Piggy“, Ralph and Jack

find a conch which Ralph
uses as a horn to bring all
the survivors to one area
Ralph 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
• Jack organizes his choir
group into the group's
"hunters", who are
responsible for hunting
for meat
• Simon 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" …
• Ralph 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.

• Piggy is the intellectual with poor

eyesight, a weight problem, and
asthma. Piggy represents an adult
figure and the rational world
• Jack Merridew Jack
epitomizes the worst aspects
of human nature when
unrepressed or untempered
by society

• Roger,
Roger at first, is a simple
"bigun" who's having fun
during his stay on the island.
Later he becomes the
executioner and torturer of
Jack's tribe.
• Simon is a character who
represents peace and
tranquility and positivity, with
some references to Jesus
Christ

• The conch symbolizes

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

Flies"
Flies is the literal English
translation of Beelzebub,
Beelzebub a
demonic figure that is often
considered synonymous
with Satan.
Satan