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Lord of the Flies Introduction

Lord of the Flies Introduction. What should you come to understand by the end of this unit?. People’s baser instincts are often stronger than their nobler ones in creating human societies. The defects in society are related to the defects in human nature.

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Lord of the Flies Introduction

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  1. Lord of the Flies Introduction

  2. What should you come to understand by the end of this unit? • People’s baser instincts are often stronger than their nobler ones in creating human societies. • The defects in society are related to the defects in human nature. • Novelists often use their fiction to make statements about their personal or political beliefs.

  3. Essential questions… • What is our true human nature? • How does Golding use setting and characters in Lord of the Flies to express his ideas about people? • What does it mean to be civilized? • Are some societies more or less civilized than others? • What is necessary to ensure civilized behavior in the individual? • Do children need to be taught to be civilized? • What causes us to lose civilized behavior?

  4. Lord of the Flies facts • Most of the characters, actions and objects in the novel symbolize larger ideas. This type of writing is called allegory. • The novel takes place during a fictional nuclear war.

  5. Setting • All of Golding’s novel takes place on the remote tropical island. (see handout) • What are some stories you know of that involve people on tropical islands? What kinds of things happen in these stories?

  6. The Coral Island In Golding’s day a popular boys adventure story was The Coral Island Written in 1858, the novel tells a story of a group of boys who get stranded on a deserted, tropical island. The major characters are Jack , Ralph , and Peterkin. It’s an adventure story with a happy ending. Is Lord of the Flies like The Coral Island? We’ll see…

  7. William Golding • http://www.slideshare.net/abigailvrgs/william-golding

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