Essay on Lord of the Flies The novel, Lord of the Flies, was written by William Golding. William Golding was born on September 19, 1911. His literary ambitions began at the young age of seven. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University in 1935. His novels explore characters and situations. In Lord of the Flies, it is a time of war. A group of English schoolboys are on a plane, when they are attacked and they …showed first 75 words of 642 total…

…showed last 75 words of 642 total…had enough time. These societies were very different from each other, but they did have one thing in common, they both failed. The society had defects because their leaders had defects. The shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system. What William Golding implied throughout this book was that the defects of a society can be traced back to the defects of human nature.