![]() The culmination of the plot in war and murder suggests that Golding's overarching hypothesis about humanity is pessimistic, that is, there are anarchic and brutal instincts in human nature. The characters discover fire, craft tools, and form political and social systems in a process that recalls theories of the development of early man, a topic of much interest among many peoples including the mid-century Western public. Golding's allusions to human evolution also reflect his scientific training. The story of their attempts at civilization and devolution into savagery and violence puts the relationship between human nature and society under a literary microscope. ![]() The novel's plot, in which a group of English boys stranded on a deserted island struggle to develop their own society, is a social and political thought-experiment using fiction. Golding drew extensively on his scientific background for his first narrative work. ![]() At the time of the novel's composition, Golding, who had published an anthology of poetry nearly two decades earlier, had been working for a number of years as a teacher and training as a scientist. ![]() Sir William Golding composed Lord of the Flies shortly after the end of WWII. ![]()
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