Lord of the Flies

*Lord of the Flies* (by William Golding) serves as an antithesis to utopian castaway tales such as *The Swiss Family Robinson* and *The Coral Island*. It is a shocking allegory depicting a group of boys who crash-land on a deserted island in the South Pacific and, under extreme conditions, see the order of civilized society collapse, ultimately leading them to kill one another. It vividly illustrates the difficulty of maintaining common sense in a barbaric society. I couldn’t read the story...