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Lord of the Flies is the 1954 debut novel of British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of prepubescent British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves that lead to a descent into savagery. The novel's themes include morality, leadership, and the tension between civility and chaos.
“The Herr Doctor does not know about peoples.”
“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men — they are far superior and always have been.”
“"How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?"”
“However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
“I will tell you what man is....He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there...”
“I don’t like the word "allegorical", I don’t like the word "symbolic", the word I really like is "mythic" and people always think that means "full of lies" when what it really means is full of a truth that cannot be told in any other way but a story.”
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