Lord of the Flies was written by Wilson Golding and was first published in 1959. It is a novel about a group of kids who were traveling in a plane that crashed on a desert island. It is an adventure story. William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911, in Cornwall, England. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother worked in the suffragette movement. Golding complied with his parents' wishes and studied science from his grammar …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…learns the truth about the beast on the mountain and the Lord of the Flies. The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system. The story examines the various ways of organizing and governing a group that have been developed and shows the defects of each.