What is "Lord of the Flies" about? "Lord of the Flies" is written by William Golding who was born on 1911. It is believed that the story was influenced by Golding's British background and the World Wars. There are many implications suggested about the book. I am trying to reveal it from the political perspective. The story is about the emergence of politics in a state of nature. A group of English boys are left on …
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…symbolic meaning of His judgment afterlife. As Thomas Hobbes says, "No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." We are in a world of conflict in which the dirty human nature is constantly revealed, and with this complexity anything can happen. Lord of the Flies only provides one version of the world's outcome.