![]() Lesson 1 focuses on the four major characters (Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon) and on ways William Golding used both direct and indirect characterization to portray them. The assumption is that students have completed reading the novel before beginning the unit. The three lessons in this unit all stress textual evidence to support observations and generalizations. This is a novel that engages students in thought-provoking discussion, as well as one that provides the opportunity for students to practice literary analysis skills. War is raging in the outside world and it does not take long for the group of children stranded on what should be a tropical paradise to also erupt into violence. ![]() Well over half a century since its first publication in 1954, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies wields the power to rivet readers’ attention and to pose questions about human nature, civilization, and evil. ![]() The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable." "The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society to the defects of human nature. ![]()
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