Plot of Lord of the Flies English 10 Class Notes on Plot.

Plot of Lord of the Flies

English 10

Class Notes on Plot

William Golding...

• Golding’s first and most successful novel, Lord of the Flies, was published in England in 1954 but its popularity was not established until five years later when it appeared in paperback.

William Golding...

• This book was followed by a series of other novels, each concerned in one way or another with the theme of man’s capacity for evil” The Inheritors, Free Fall and The Brass Butterfly.

Theme of Lord of the Flies….

• The theme of Lord of the Flies is that man is inherently evil and needs the structure of civilization (laws and order) to control him.

A not too brief synopsis...

• British schoolboys are stranded on an uninhabited island during a nuclear war. Ralph meets Piggy, a fat, bespectacled boy, and together they find a conch shell which Ralph uses as a trumpet.


• In response to the sound, other boys appear, some very small, none older than twelve, and finally a group dressed in choir robes and led by jack Merridew.


• Realizing that they are not adults, the boys attempt to organize their own society. Ralph is elected chief and Jack is given control of the choir who become his “hunters.”


• The division of labor is agreed upon: Jack and his group will become hunters; Ralph, aided by Simon, Piggy and the twins Samneric, will build huts and carry water


• Ralph and Piggy criticize Jack who responds by breaking Piggy’s glasses with a blow, then boasts about the pig his hunters have slain.


• As the novel progress, fear becomes a part of island life for the boys.

• One of the fears is that there is an unexplained “beast” on the island.


• Laced with such fears, the power struggle between the two boys grows.

• The boys become more and more fascinated with their savage side.


• By the end of the novel, the boys are offering sacrifices to the beast, Piggy and Simon are killed, and Ralph is being hunted by the group he once lead.

Plot of Lord of the Flies English 10 Class Notes on Plot.

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