William Gerald Golding

Biography

1911: Born in Newquay 1921: He went to the Marlborough

grammar school 1932:He went to the Brasenose

college and studied English literature 1939: He married Ann Brookfield 1993: He died…..

Major works Poems (1934 Lord of the Flies (1955) The Inheritors (1956) Pincher Martin (1956) The Bass Butterfly (1958) Free Fall (1959) The Spire (1964) The Hot Gates (1965) The Pyramid (1967) The Scorpion God (1971) Darkness Visible (1979)

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies

Allegorical novel

Civilisation vs. Savagery

Loss of innocence

Lord of the Flies

Civilisation is the ‘good’ (Ralph) Savagery is the ‘evil’ (Jack)

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Nobel Prize Golding was awarded the Nobel

Prize for literature in 1983

"his novels which, with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today".

In Memoriam

William Golding died in 1993 of heart failure

He left Ann golding behind

Sir William Gerald Golding