William Golding

1. Lord of the Flies
By: William Golding
Aksaule Sandybay, Yasmin
Salikhojayeva

2. William Golding
 British novelist
 Born in 1911
 Died 1993
 Studied the Sciences
and English
 Fought in Royal Navy
during WWII
 Nobel Prize in Literature

3. What was Life Like for
Golding?
 WWII 1939- 1945
 The fall of France to
Germany
 British were fearing
invasion and began
evacuating children to
other countries
 1940 A British ship carry
children was destroyed
killing the boys

4. His thoughts on LOTF
 “It was simply what seemed sensible for
me to write after the war when everyone
was thanking God they weren’t Nazis. I’d
seen enough to realize that every single
one of us could be Nazis.” ~Golding

5. What inspired Golding to
write LOTF?
 Experiences in the war
 His questions about human nature
 His own students behavior when given the
opportunity to debate

6. Novel FACTS
 Rejected 21 times
before it was
published
 His first novel 1954
 Not really successful
until 1960
 One of the most
challenged books in
schools

7. THEMES
 Survival
 Power/Leadership
 Civilization vs.
Savagery
 Loss of Innocence
 Human Nature
 Good vs. Evil

8. Literary devices
 SYMBOLISM
 IRONY
 IMAGERY
 FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
 simile
 metaphor
 personification

9.  “Ralph wept for the
end of innocence,
the darkness of a
man’s heart, and the
fall through the air of
a true, wise friend
called Piggy.”
~Golding