William Goulding's Lord Of The Flies

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A beast.Everyone is afraid of it;everyone hates it.But what if it's actually us? William Goulding asks this question in his novel Lord Of The Flies.Set on a tropical island during world war ll,the story begins when boys from Great Britain are being flown to safety(due to the war)is shot down.None of the adults survived,and the boys are left to assume command until they got rescued.Throughout the story,William Goulding hints and then slowly reveals that the beast is within all of us. In the beginning,Ralph and Piggy blew the conch shell to gather up the rest of the children on the island.Goulding wrote down a very interesting description of the choir boys”[there was]something dark...fumbling along...the creature was a party of boys,marching approximately in...two parallel lines…”(18).This is such a weird