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Fighting in World War II helped shape his philosophy.
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William Golding philosophy was that people were capable of great evil, and that there is a savage in all of us. He thought that if people were in the state to survive, we would do anything to keep our lives. After seeing World War 2, he realized that people had great evil in them, that they would go to any measures to survive.
Sir William MacCormac did not serve in World War 2. He lived during World War 1. See attached link.
World war 2.
William Powell was an Black American infantry lieutenant in the U.S. Army during World War !
Ted Williams was in World War II and the Korean War.
Major William Earle Molesworth was a British World War I flying ace credited with 18 aerial victories.
Call of Duty World at War has it.
William Bartholomew Brown has written: 'America in a world at war' -- subject(s): Defenses, World War, 1939-1945
To help the Navy men with ships and supplies and duties to win the war
William Golding had a very negative view upon society during the time of when Lord of the Flies was written. The themes of death and using the island as a microcosm of the world shows that a lack of peace and havoc was exhibited world wide. Modern society is made to be untrustworthy and immature as war and anguish are the only expressive mediums.