Lord Of The Flies Critical Analysis

The Crucifixion of the Lord of the Flies
Sir William Golding; a man who has reached critical acclaim, who has been knighted, and whose novels such as Lord of the Flies and Rites of Passage have won The Nobel Prize in Literature and The Man Booker Prize. He is taught in schools all over the world where students analyze and critique his work and where his words and thoughts are accessible to anyone. He is thought to have strongly represented the thinking process of young boys in Lord of the Flies and written a thought-provoking novel on the savagery of mankind. However should we be hailing this attempted rapist as a knight and someone who has greatly contributed to literature? William Golding was not deserving of the fame and success he received and Lord of the Flies should not have acquired the critical acclaim it did. Furthermore, while he was a teacher he confessed to pitting his own pupils against each other. Lord of the Flies had major plot holes and lacked resourcefulness; overall the novel could be considered unworthy of The …show more content…
Notable flaws in plot occur with regards to the plane crash in the book, leaving a vague explanation that avoided answering reader’s questions such as what became of the plane after the boys crashed, how they got off of the plane without any injuries, why there were no adults or girls, or even how they do not remember the crash and vacating the plane. Lord of the Flies truly lacked originality when compared with aforementioned Coral Island. The plot of Coral Island involved boys who were stranded on an island, with main characters bearing the names of Jack and Ralph. While Golding may have written his novel with a darker finality than Coral Island, it does not take away from the fact that he used the same concept of Coral Island and went so far as to use the same character names. Lord of the Flies was an underwhelming novel that lacked creativity and thorough background explanation that was inferior to other