Author's Background

2)Author's background

-William Golding's life

-William Golding was born in 1911, in his grandmother's house in Cornwall. He grew up in Marlborough, Wiltshire and was raised by his parents and was a family of four. His father, Alec, was a teacher with socialist views while his mother, Mildred, campaigned for women's suffrage. His older brother, Joseph, was also a teacher like his father. He was married to Ann Brookfield, an analytical chemist, in 1939, and had 2 children named David and Judith Diana. He sadly passed away in 1993 at the age of 82. He served in the Royal Navy during Second World War and after that, published four books while teaching at Bishop Wordsworth School in Salisbury. In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature and  in 1988, he was knighted

-His motivation and reasons for writing the novel

-His motivation for writing the book was mostly due to him having served in the British Navy during World War 2. He was exposed to humanity's cruelty and commented that 'man produces evil like bees produce honey'. He wanted to make a connection with man's evil nature to the book. Seeing how good guys can become savage he decided to use a similar setting to portray how innocent boys can lose their civilized nature.

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