Lord Of The Flies: The Philosophical Sense The novel Lord Of The Flies, written by author, William Golding is among one of the world's most celebrated and most recognized novels. This symbolic novel has a number of different interpretations. One of these is that it is an anti-utopian novel. Some of the key aspects of the novel which gave rise to the interpretations are the symbolic nature of the characters and the settings. Utopia - …showed first 75 words of 960 total…

…showed last 75 words of 960 total…who have ruled through fear and cruelty. Religions played on primitive instincts and war breaking out with death and destruction as the inevitable consequences. William Golding was a reluctant participant in World War Two and has seen his work as cautiously optimistic: "It is in that attempt to see how things have become what they are, where they went wrong and where right, that the only hope lies of having control over our own future."