Lord of the Flies
William Golding • 1954
Devastation Rating
dystopian trauma philosophical literary fiction survival
Our Take
The children do exactly what the adults do, and that is the whole damning argument. Golding watches civilization dissolve with the patience of a man who believes it was always going to. Simon's death is the pivot on which the novel turns — the murder of innocence by boys who are still, technically, innocent.
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