back in the wild

Man thinks so civilized, so superior to animals ... William Golding sweeps all these prejudices of a large lapel enmenant us in a lost island where shipwrecked British children try to organize society.
But in the absence of adults, it is not easy to find stable reference points and soon the antagonism between the two hotheads, Ralph and Jack, turns the split of the group. The first attempts to maintain a civilized order while the latter believes that for damn damn, so back to our animal instincts.
And mentalié spreads to tragedy when Jack Clan animal impulses turn against other human beings.
Lord of the Flies is a very influential book, William Golding had the audacity to describe the decline of the innocence of a child and lead to a permanent climate of fear where humans hunting humans. This remains a literary classic, striking and fascinating.