Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954, ... "However Simon thought of the beast," we're told, "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." ...

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

The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. ... – “Lord of the Flies,” – William Golding (1954) ...

Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954, ... After a lone expedition, he discovers that the Beast is no more than a dead airman – a casualty of the war raging far off in the distance, ...