That's a shame because that this novel with its intertextual and moral philosophy covers only such readers opens in full entirety, which have a greater level of education and the corresponding passages can classify.
The story is actually told in a few sentences more interesting are the moral, ethical and political issues raised by Golding. On a paradise island a group of schoolboys finds himself, who survived a Flugzeugabsurz. A nuclear war has broken out, they should be evacuated, but are now on their own, and endeavored to order. At first, it is the child's sense of adventure and experience hunger, but the soon turns into violence. The group splits into the camp to Ralph, who tried in a democratic way, to create an order and in the camp to Jack, the democratic decisions be accepted, instead of embodying the tyranny and totalitarianism.
The title presents in Satan, the Lord of the Flies, what is the meaning of the Hebrew-Greek word Beelzebub. In fact, can be the first paradisiacal place where the boys arrive involuntarily, certainly as a garden called Eden, which is later by a fall and that eventually sparked bushfires in the truest sense of the word hell. Golding, who was strongly influenced by religious, drilled by its six- to twelve-year-old schoolboy obviously the doctrine of original sin by: Evil is just in all of us.
In addition, the political reading that shows the stark contrast between dictatorship and democracy exists. The third reading can be done in terms of a moral and anthropological interpretation by the initially innocent, not involved in the war youth, inspired maneuvered from a beautiful utopia, by their very humanity itself into the abyss.
For the purposes of modern literature of high symbolism needs to be highlighted, in which the perceived environment of children and young people will be charged to phantasmagoria. Not to mention the intertextual reference to Robert Michael Ballantyne's highly popular youth book of the 19th century, "The Coral Iceland". Here developed eponymous protagonist - Ralph and Jack - superhuman abilities and lived through a positive phase formation while Golding leads to negative or Dystopian.
Conclusion: It appears that Golding's novel in fact full of food for thought and concepts from different disciplines and is therefore with some justification asserts a not just low rank in the long list of world literature. This has striven to perpetuate it, such as in the award-winning American television series "Lost".
