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.