WILLIAM GOLDİNG and LORD OF THE FLİES (1954)

Year 1989, Issue: 17, 49 - 67, 01.03.2024

Gülden Ertuğrul

Abstract

When Lord of the Flies was First published by Faber and Faber, in
1954, it received little attention, although the firm which published the book,
was well known for its intellectual fastitiousness. One of the directors of Jıc
firm was the poet and essayist T.S.Eliot. Hovvever some years later the novel
came to be immensely admired, particularly in the United States as a pardigm of
the modem crisis of 1950s and of permanent human comdition. The novel
secured its author a lasting fame during his life time. Golding at the time was a
schoolmaster at Bishop Wodsworth's School in Salisbury. He was leading an
active life of a teacher in a small cathedral city in the south of England. It was
recognized how successfully the novel caught and reflected the post-war Europe
when people doubted that it could be a lasting peace again. It was wondercd if
human race would come to terms with knovvledge of the atomic destruetion.
The novel was not a simple children's adventure story, but it dealt with the
serious and complex issues of morality and philosophy. The novel had the
elements of satire, fable, allegory, or an anti-utopia. Golding reflected the mood
of 1950's so successfully that his novel becamc fashionable and gained a quick
reputation.

Keywords

Lord of the Flies, William Golding, Morals, Existentialism, Human Existence, Darkness

WILLIAM GOLDİNG and LORD OF THE FLIES (1954)

Abstract

When Lord of the Flies was First published by Faber and Faber, in
1954, it received little attention, although the firm which published the book,
was well known for its intellectual fastitiousness. One of the directors of Jıc
firm was the poet and essayist T.S.Eliot. Hovvever some years later the novel
came to be immensely admired, particularly in the United States as a pardigm of
the modem crisis of 1950s and of permanent human comdition. The novel
secured its author a lasting fame during his life time. Golding at the time was a
schoolmaster at Bishop Wodsworth's School in Salisbury. He was leading an
active life of a teacher in a small cathedral city in the south of England. It was
recognized how successfully the novel caught and reflected the post-war Europe
when people doubted that it could be a lasting peace again. It was wondercd if
human race would come to terms with knovvledge of the atomic destruetion.
The novel was not a simple children's adventure story, but it dealt with the
serious and complex issues of morality and philosophy. The novel had the
elements of satire, fable, allegory, or an anti-utopia. Golding reflected the mood
of 1950's so successfully that his novel becamc fashionable and gained a quick
reputation.

Keywords

Lord of The Flies, Existentialism, Morality, Human Existence, Darkness

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