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Why Do You Think William Golding Chose To Set Lord of the Flies on and Island, and How Does He Use The Island In The Novel
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Why Do You Think William Golding Chose To Set Lord of the Flies on and Island, and How Does He Use The Island In The Novel William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in 1954. It tells the story of a group of young boys who are stranded on a previously uninhabited island with no adults around to save them. Golding used the idea of an island as a blank canvas backdrop in several ways which greatly enhance the effectiveness of the story. The island has no other humans on it, and shows no signs of man ever living there before. The landscape is perfect, and there are many fruit trees and pigs. Golding uses this to represent the Garden of Eden; there is nothing but natural beauty on the island, untouched by humans. Golding also uses the pigs as the "forbidden fruit," which once the hunters have had a taste for,...
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