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Why should you read “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding? - Jill Dash

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Estatísticas de aprendizado

B1

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5/10

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Legendas (72 segmentos)

00:06

William Golding was losing his faith in humanity.

00:10

Serving aboard a British destroyer in World War II,

00:13

the philosophy teacher turned Royal Navy lieutenant was constantly confronted

00:18

by the atrocities of his fellow man.

00:21

And when he returned to England to find Cold War superpowers

00:25

threatening one another with nuclear annihilation,

00:27

he was forced to interrogate the very roots of human nature.

00:31

These musings on the inevitability of violence

00:35

would inspire his first and most famous novel: "Lord of the Flies."

00:40

After being rejected by 21 publishers,

00:42

the novel was finally published in 1954.

00:46

It takes its title from Beelzebub, a demon associated with pride and war—

00:51

two themes very much at the heart of Golding’s book.

00:55

The novel was a bleak satire of a classic island adventure story,

00:59

a popular genre where young boys get shipwrecked in exotic locations.

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