Context

• "This is what the book is really about: if you don't have rules, that is to say, if you don't have laws, then you're lost, you're finished, you're gone" - Golding
• WW2 --> fear, problems that arise from totalitarian control, to warn the readers of the perilous effects of ruling by fear and aggression

  the need for democracy, war atrocities
• Golding as a teacher --> observed how easily influenced and malleable children are, observed the benefits of rules, understands social dynamics in children --> correlates with the bullying of Piggy solely due to his appearance, focus on boy's behaviour
• atomic bomb --> mass destruction, mirrors the catastrophic destruction of the fire at the end of the novel
• Beezelbub --> prince of Hell/ Satan- theme of evil