What war influenced William golding to write lord of the flies?

Answer 1

Tto show how much civilization plays a huge role in our life and to show that human nature takes over in times of distress otherwise our inner savage would take control. He also depicts the acts of human being in our desire of power or whether we are strong enough to resist temptation and not follow the crowd.

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Because he had 20 spare minutes around his busy schedule :)

Answer 2

to show how much civilization plays a huge role in our life, otherwise our inner savage would take control. he also depicts the acts of human being in our desire of power or whether we are strong enough to resist temptation and not follow the crowd.

Answer 3

When William Golding came out of the war, he was upset about how people treated each other. His views changed, and he decided that people are born evil. He believed that selfishness and evilness is human essence. The only thing stopping us from acting on our natural instinct of being evil, is society and the rules and consequence that come with it. The book is his interpretation of what would happen without rules.

Answer 4

Golding said that his intention in writing the book was to write a more realistic account of what might happen to a group of marooned boys that had been previously imagined in books such as 'The Coral Island.' He even deliberately used the names Ralph and Jack, which were also used in 'The Coral Island' to make the comparison clear. So, as he was writing an alternative account of boys marooned on an island it obviously had to take place on an island. An island is an ideal setting, especially a tropical island, as it has all the basic necessities such as food and water. More importantly it is isolated and divorced from the outside world and its influences. In effect it is like placing some microbes in a Petri dish, sealing them in and seeing what happens.

Answer 5

Golding was in a war , and it affected his view's on humanity , and He was fascinated with the changes that happens when there is no authority.

Answer 6

his experiences as a soldier in WW2, showing him the atrocities man can commit under the right circumstances

Answer 7

He used this device because he needed inspiration... on writing Lord of the Flies.

Answer 8

The second world war in which he fought and saw the horrors of.

Answer 9

The second world war in which he fought and saw the horrors of.