Good grief: <i>Lord of the Flies</i> as a post-war rewriting of salvation history
Golding’s Lord of the Flies, first published in 1954, reflects a bleak sense of post-war pessimism. But with undue attention focused on its portrayal of original sin and the problem of evil, readings have often remained reductive. In this article it is argued that the novel’s symbolic narrative is p...
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2004-07-01
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| Series: | Literator |
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| Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/253 |