Lord of the Flies | Essays and Criticism
- Lord of the Flies: Interpretations
In this essay, Diane Andrews Henningfeld explores how Golding's novel can be interpreted in a variety of different ways—including as political, psychological, and religious allegory.
- Teaching Rationale for William Golding's Lord of the Flies
In the following excerpt, Paul Slayton finds Lord of the Flies to be a parable about modern civilization and human morality, and describes Golding's literary techniques.
- The Coral Island Revisited
In the following excerpt, Carl Niemeyer compares Lord of the Flies to an earlier, utopian British children's novel, The Coral Island.
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