The historical context regarding Golding’s life is also pretty interesting. The whole novel can be seen as a symbolic representation of the events between the years 1918 and 1945, the end of WW1 to the end of WW2. However, this is covertly described as not actually being WW2 when Piggy tells Ralph, ‘Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead.’ This is a reference to atom bombs other than the ones dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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