Lord of the Flies Book Review by Difan Li

 Lord of the Flies Book Review by Difan Li

Lord of the Flies is a well-known novel, especially due to its academic use in the classroom. However, if you look at it from beyond the walls of the writing or english class, you may find that this book is an incredible testament to the savagery of mankind, and ultimately questions where the line is drawn between humanity and survival and what it takes to cross that line. By using young boys as the main characters, William Golding forces you to acknowledge that these conflicts exist within all people and are embedded within society. The entire book is set within the bubble of an island, isolated and locked within its own reality. However, these fundamentals of human nature continue to exist and the boys begin to mirror society, where law and order conflict with violence and chaos. By the end of the book, when the boys leave the island, they must face the ‘adult’ reality, perhaps an even more dangerous reflection of the world they built and were destroyed by.