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British Cultural Indicators- The Lord of the Flies
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Hi Uni - I am not a Eng Lit major BUT
of course a novel such as Golding's is a cultural indicator.
The novel is about a children's society and in order to sell (or be read) - it is after all a successful novel, it has to resonate with the reader (or else he will go and read the Sun).
So think about a novel set in the South Seas, would it have be as successful?
But not only that take Dickens or Trollope who set one series in Church. The stting has to known to the reader and agreeable to him. Novels which disgusted the reader at that time - hardy's Jude the obscure - where the eldest child hangs the other four and writes - dun because we are too menny - still may have resonation. Macaulays wife commented that we dont have to read about such societies as this, but she did not deny that something likethat could occur.
Hope this helps
Golding originally wrote the novel with an ending where the boys all killed each other, but he was made to write a (sort of) happy ending by his publisher. Similar, perhaps, to the original ending of 28 Days Later, where the transmission turns out to be merely a recording and they all die. I am very glad of these happy endings, as the stories would be just too dark without them! However, it is interesting to consider the authors' first drafts and the ideas they raise, so I think it is good that we know about the revisions made.
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