1. EXPOSITION NOTES

2. 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”.

3. 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