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- Euripides's ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae (405 BC), which is widely recognized as influencing Lord of the Flies, depicts the impact of Dionysian worship on Thebes. In the play, King Pentheus attempts to halt the Bacchantes' Dionysian rituals, only to be mistaken for a wild animal and killed by his own mother.
- Just as Lord of the Flies serves as a post-World War II counter to R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island, Golding's subsequent novel, The Inheritors (1955), offers a realistic rebuttal to H. G. Wells's optimistic historical theory presented in his Outline of History.
- George Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), similar to Lord of the Flies, is an allegory shaped by the author's wartime experiences. It delves into the nature of humanity and the quest to establish a just society.
- J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951) presents a view of man and society through the eyes of a young man recovering psychologically as he reflects on his past experiences. This perspective is often contrasted with that of Golding's novel, and both books have been popular on college campuses at different times.
- Marianne Wiggins's 1989 novel John Dollar, praised for its prose style, has been described as a "girl's version" of Lord of the Flies. Set in the 1910s, it tells the story of a group of girls and their blinded schoolmistress who become stranded on an island near Burma after a storm.
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