Lord of the Flies is a postwar allegory starring boys ... a fat person or convince each other to believe in an invisible beast that could kill all of them or divide into warring tribes.

He knows that the Beast isn't real and is in fact borne ... Golding discussed his reasons for writing Lord of the Flies: My book was to say: you think that now the [Second World War] is over ...

or the Lord of the Flies. When the boy, Simon, looks hard at the pig’s carcass covered with insects, it seems to say this. “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” ...

Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954 ... and political realities for these groups is as simple as hunting the Beast. Jack lives on in Trump, Le Pen, and Farage. In counterpoint to ...

The novel Lord of the Flies attempts to interpret man ... Civilization, Golding emphasizes, has thinly veiled, but not destroyed, the beast within us. The novel succeeds both as adventure and ...

The sow's head becomes the Lord of the Flies, and tells a hallucinatory Simon that the beast on the island -- first identified by the birthmarked little boy -- actually resides inside the boys.