Thread: Lord of the Flies

I thought it was a good read. You really have to appreciate metaphors and symbolism to like it though. In case you missed the main point in the novel, it's that every person has a darkness inside of them. The monster is us. Nice, huh?

I found Lord Of the Flies a raw and crude book well written with good imagery throughout
quite a blast and very enjoyable.

It's not really the form of government that is faulty, it's the fact that it has humans running it. With a benevolent, infallible leader, any government would be acceptable, adversely, there is no government that is not susceptible to the fallibility of humans.

Originally Posted by Iorek Brynison

My friend recommended me a book called Lord of the Flies by Williams Golden. He won the nobel literature award so I decided to read it. I got to around page 60 of the book and found it really really dull. There was no plot at all except for a bunch of kids hunting for pigs.

Did any of you guys read the book? Does it get better at the end?

i loved this book.

the first half was, in my opinion, dreadfully boring - but the ending does make this worthwhile. whoever said it was symbolic is incredibly correct, everything is a symbol for everything else. x3 i liked it so much.

Mixed feelings...at the beginning I was confused because there were too many boys just showing up and it was boring...just eating and conch shell madness. Then, towards the end it got really good. Lots of symbolism, kind of creepy. But in the end, I loved it. One of my faves now. It's kind of like Animal Farm if anyone's read that. That book is genius...scary too.

Lord of the Flies is a good book. It was required for school for me. I didn't enjoy it then because I was being rushed through it. I reread it at a later point and enjoyed it while reading at my own pace. It's a decent novel full of symbolism with an interesting plot.

I thought it was brilliant. I first read it when I was 14, and then had to re-read it for exams this year; its a fantastic text to write about. The ideas Golding present still scare me sometimes :p

It's a microcsm. I think you can only appreciate the book if you look at it with a bigger perspective. Golding isn't just talking about young boys killing pigs, he's commenting on our society and on human nature.
It all comes down to this...do we inherit voilent insincts? Golding says Yes we do and proof of that is not only WWII but little boys picking on an outsider because of his physical appearance (Piggy).
I personally agree with him. If voilence isn't a part of human nature then where did the first voilent human beings come from. I think it's something we have to live with and use in a sufficient manner.
It's a good read. Really made me think.

Couldn't stand this book. Yeah, there's symbolism, but I was so bored by the plot and just the book itself that the symbolism meant nothing to me.