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Lord of The Flies

Lord of The Flies. William Golding. Learning Goals. I will be able to explain the historical and social context of Lord of The Flies I should be able to identify with some of the key themes of the text I could make predictions about Golding’s purpose. William Golding.

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Lord of The Flies

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  1. Lord of The Flies William Golding

  2. Learning Goals I will be able to explain the historical and social context of Lord of The Flies I should be able to identify with some of the key themes of the text I could make predictions about Golding’s purpose

  3. William Golding “after the war...I had discovered what one man could do to another... [what could be done] skillfully, coldly, by educated men, doctors, lawyers, by men with a tradition of civilization behind them, to beings of their own kind.”

  4. The Author: William Golding • William Golding was born in 1911. After leaving Oxford University, he worked as an actor, producer and writer, and then as a teacher in a boy's public school. • During World War 2 Golding was lieutenant in the Royal Navy, in command of a small rocket ship. While carrying out his duties he ordered the destruction of German ships and submarines and he shelled German troops from sea during the D-Day landings.

  5. The Author: William Golding • Golding was horrified by what war revealed about people's capacity to harm their fellow humans. He was appalled by what happened in the Nazi concentration camps, and by the way the Japanese mistreated their prisoners. He was appalled too by the consequences of the British and American mass bombing against civilians - and even by what he himself did as a naval officer. He lost faith in humanity and began to wonder whether humans were innately evil.

  6. The Author: William Golding • World War 2 ended in 1945. The United Nations was set up after the war to try to ensure that a global conflict never happened again, but in 1954, when Lord of the Flies was published, the threat of a nuclear war was still very real. It was entirely plausible to the novel's original audience that an atom bomb really could destroy civilisation.

  7. Context of Reception • Lord of The Flies was written in 1954. It was not a great success at the time—selling fewer than 3,000 copies before going out of print. However, In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005.

  8. The Setting • Most imaginary desert islands are peaceful paradises • In a book called Coral Island by RM Ballantyne, published in 1857, 100 years before Golding's book, three young British boys are shipwrecked on a desert island and have to survive without any adults. Brave and resourceful, they thoroughly enjoy their experience and there is never a hint of trouble.

  9. The Setting • From his experience as a teacher, Golding knew that the idyllic life of Coral Island could never exist in real life. So, he set out to write a novel that showed his ideas about the darker side of human nature starting from the same basis: boys stranded on a desert island, away from all civilising influences. Lord of the Flies was the result. Why just boys….? http://ed.ted.com/on/xkl7yuwa

  10. Setting • The novel takes place during a fictional atomic war. • A group of British schoolboys are flown out of their country to protect them from the horrors of war when their plane crashes on desert island • There are no adults-no rules!

  11. Law and Order Who defines what is good and bad behaviour? Do we need rules? Why?

  12. Tottenham Riots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7H02HSip_c How do these images make you feel? What caused this scene? Who is to blame? Do teenagers need to be more tightly controlled?

  13. Good Versus Evil • Can a person be born good or evil or does he have to learn to be good or evil? • Can a person be ALL good or ALL evil? • Give an example of a good person • Give an example of an evil person

  14. Big Question to consider as you read the novel Golding tells us in his lecture that Lord of The Flies is a fable. He uses setting, symbols and characters to teach us a moral lesson, a universal truth. As you read the text, think carefully about what Golding is trying to teach us about the nature of man.

  15. Home Learning Read chapters 1-2

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