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Several other novels in Golding's canon deal with the theme of self-knowledge and the imposing of one's own will. In Pincher Martin (1956), the dead seaman pits his will against God's, refusing to give up. He learns that his will is no match. Sammy Mountjoy, in Free Fall (1959), looks back on his life to see where he lost his freedom. He finds that it was the moment he imposed his will on another and ruined her life. Like Sammy, Oliver, the protagonist in The Pyramid (1967), learns about himself in the course of the novel; but where Sammy wishes to overcome his dark...
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