"Lord of the Flies" tells the story of a group of English boys evacuated from a city targeted by an atomic bomb. After suffering a plane crash, they are confined to a deserted island in the Pacific. There they reconstitute the values of their own society, splitting into two groups that fiercely dispute power: one led by the peaceful Ralph, the other by the violent Jack. Author William Golding defined his story as "an attempt to show that the defects of society accompany those of human nature. The moral is this: the face of society depends on the ethical nature of man, not on the political system, however logical and respectable it may seem."
Review of Lord of the Flies
