UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL

HERMILIO VALDIZÁN
PROGRAMA DE SEGUNDA ESPECIALIDAD PROFESIONAL

LITERARY WORK:
Lord of the Flies
LITERATURA INGLESA
DOCENTE: Dra. SILVIA GISSELA NIETO TUCTO
STUDENTS:
CAJAHUANCA CAPCHA, Walter Raul
ROJAS ALBINO, Jhielsin Jhourbush
William Gerald Golding
1911 - 1993
I. EXTERNAL ASPECT:
1.1. AUTHOR:
BIOGRAPHY:
• He was born on September 19, 1911, in Saint Columb Minor,
Cornwall, England.
• Occupation: a school teacher – taught English & philosophy
at Bishop Wordsworth’s School.
• Schooling: Oxford University (Bachelor in English, diploma
in education)
• Military: Served in the Royal Navy from 1940-1945 (during
World War II)
• In 1983 won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his parables of
the human condition.
• Death: Died in Cornwall, England in 1993
Works:
Lord of the Flies (novel) (1954; film 1963 and 1990)
The Inheritors (novel) 1955
Pincher Martin (novel) 1956
The Brass Butterfly (play) 1958
Free Fall (novel) 1959
The Spire (novel) 1964
The Hot Gates (essays) 1965
The Pyramid (novel) 1967
The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971
Darkness Visible (novel) 1979
Rites of Passage (novel) 1980
A Moving Target (essays and autobiographical pieces) 1982
The Paper Men (novel) 1984
An Egyptian Journal 1985
Close Quarters (novel) 1987
Fire Down Below (novel) 1989
1.2. TITLE OF THE WORK:
Lord of the Flies

1.3. GENRE: Novel

1.4. SUBGENRE: Juvenile

Literature

1.5. LITERARY MOVEMENT:

Allegorical fiction
II. INTERNAL ASPECT

2.1. STRUCTURE: It´s a novel

2.2. SETTING: In a island

2.3. CHARACTERS:
Ralph
Jack
Simon
Piggy
Roger
Sam and Eric (twins)
 2.4. CENTRAL THEME:
Has many important themes, including civilization,
rules and order, innocence lost, corrupt mentality,
knowledge, and nature.
 2.5. SUMMERY:
The book opens in the immediate aftermath of the plane
crash that lands the boys on the island, and the actions for
survive.
The central axis of the novel is traced in the conflict of two
competitive sides immersed in human beings.
The powers struggle, about the leadership, influence, clarity,
fear, the dark side, fellowship, education, rules, survival,
individual role, respect, the listen, support, goodness and
badness.
It is a comparison as a current society and its actions.
The major conflict in Lord of the
Flies is the struggle between Jack
and Ralph. The fight for who will
lead the island represents the clash
between a peaceful democracy, as
symbolized by Ralph, and a violent
dictatorship, as symbolized by Jack.
“A leader takes people where they
want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don't
necessarily want to go, but ought
to be.”
Rosalynn Carter (Jimmy Carter’s wife)
 Simon is the only character
whose sense of morality
does not seem to have been
imposed by society.

Ralph represents respect for the law, duty,

reason, and the protection of the weak,
whereas Jack represents violence, cruelty,
mob rule, government through fear, and
tyranny.
 III. INTERPRETATIVE ASPECT
3.1. MESSAGE: About conflict between groups,
within all human beings: the instinct to live by the
rules, act in peace, follow moral mandates, and
value the good of the group versus the instinct to
gratify one's own immediate interests, desires, act
violently to gain supremacy. What should true
leadership look like?
3.2. CRITICAL ASSESSMENT:
We have some themes as:
• The Need for Social Order
• Power
• Vision
• Fear of the Unknown
• Loss of Identity
• Loss of Innocence

Those are familiar terms now.

 IV. LINGUISTIC ASPECT
4.1. VOCABULARY:
• Beelzebub: A hebrew word for Lucifer

• Conch shell: mollusk that inhabits the ocean

• The Lord of the Flies: The name given to the

sow’s head that Jack’s gang impales on a stake
and erects in the forest as an offering to the
“beast.”
Thanks