When news that an all-female reimagining of William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies would be made into a film, the vocal masses reacted with incredulity.. There are plenty of reasons to ...

Lord of the Flies was first published in 1954, ... Piggy is debilitated when the boys steal his glasses—his means of vision and clarity—and use them to start a fire.

Lord of the Flies’ Themes are Difficult for Kids to Act. There’s a darkness in every human being, whether we like to think so or not. Looking at ourselves in the mirror while brushing our ...

When I saw that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies was turning 70, I bought myself a new copy. I hadn’t read it for a while — 30 years, give or take — and I wondered what its effects ...