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• Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding in 1954.
• The island acts as a microcosm of a war-torn society that horrified Golding post-WW2
• "man produces evil as a bee produces honey"
• Golding served in the royal navy during WW2, therefore he had a first hand experiences of the evil of man i.e - Hiroshima, Nagisaki, Nazis' treatment of Jews - inhumane behaviour was accepted and normalised