Jan 6, 2010

Lord of the Flies | What Do I Read Next?

Euripides's ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae, (405 BC), whose influence on Lord of the Flies is widely acknowledged, dramatizes the influence of the worship of Dionysus on the city of Thebes. In the play, King Pentheus tries to stop the Bacchantes' Dionysian ceremony and as a result is taken for a wild animal and killed by his mother.
Just as Lord of the Flies is a post-World War II response to R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island, so Golding's...