EXPOSITION NOTES

William Golding: born England 1911 Father: “reason rather than experience is a necessary and reliable means through which to gain knowledge and understand the world” Conflict: fear of the dark, emotional responses Golding taught schoolboys and wrote in opposition to / parody of the “perfect” images portrayed in contemporary novels. Life experiences led him to believe “man produces evil as bees produce honey”.

Lord of the Flies Written less than a decade after World War Two Holocaust Atomic Bomb Cold War All these factors contribute the mood / tone of fear of the book In LOF, Jack and the hunters, who offer the luxury of meat and the comforts of dictatorship mirror Hitler post World War One Germany. Missing Piece / Exposition An atomic bomb causes the boy’s evacuation No adults on the island