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Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies has more than one “theme,” or meaning, but the overall and most important one is that the conditions of life within society are closely related to the moral integrity of its individual members. In Golding’s own words:
“The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable.”
The theme of Lord of the Flies has been questioned for decades. Golding believed that the theme was to trace the problems of society back to the sinful nature of man. He wrote the book to show how political systems cannot govern society effectively without first taking into consideration the defects of human nature. The defects of human nature are present in examples in Golding’s novel through the characters of Jack and his hunters. Here, Golding shows that men are inherently......


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