I still think about Lord of the Flies and how I much just didn't like it (literature.cafe)

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I still to this day don't understand the point that book served. I don't know if it was just a product of its time but I don't think a bunch of children would behave like that in the event of being stranded

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[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

My literature class in high school discussed it as an allegory for man's inhumanity to man and the patterns of violence and authoritarianism rather than as a prediction of what would literally happen if children were left to their own devices.

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