I am having a hard time rating this book. It's such a huge classic and it made me think. A lot. But in the end, I'm not sure I can completely agree with Golding's bleak view on humanity. The plot is simple. A group of boys gets stranded on an uninhabited island and they need to figure out how to survive. Instead, they fall apart, violently, over differences of priorities and leadership issues. Golding's message here couldn't be any clearer. That humans, stripped of rules and customs set by civilizations, revert back to animalistic nature quite quickly, and even pre-teen kids are not immune to it. I understand that much as we hope for humans to always behave in a humane manner, our species very often fall short of it. Be it in classroom bullying or neighbors turning on each other in a riot. But at the same time, are the majority of humans innately violent enough to kill? Is it only the laws that prevent us from such behavior? If so, how would we explain all the small kindnesses, cooperation, and support that are not state-mandated and yet we receive on a daily basis from our fellow humans?

I had a difficult time accepting everything going on in Lord of the Flies. Shared difficulties often brew new friendships. Yet in a group of kids facing the worst of difficulties, we hardly saw any decent friendships forming. The central characters are all around the age of 12. These kids, with the exception of Ralph and Piggy, don't show much eagerness in going back home. They are not shown to miss their families. They are hardly shown to be scared to death until they think they saw a 'beast'. But they are concerned about establishing leadership and masculinity. Most of the kids quite literally turn into bloodthirsty savages. While reading the book, the early stages of their disputes seemed very plausible, the fast spiraling into madness in the latter part was not very convincing to me. At least based on my experience from that age, but that is based mostly on how girls that age behave. This brings me to the other problem with this story. There are no girls on this island. If this is to be taken as an extrapolation of adult human behavior, keeping the nature of half of them out of the count will hardly do justice. Golding in some interview said that he made it all boys because including girls would have added to the complexity much more. Maybe that would have made the story different, or maybe he wouldn't have been able to make his point on the one-dimensional brutality of humans. But the real society is complex, with men and women, good and bad, kind and violent, and simplifying it to achieve a particular point feels unfair.

Overall, it certainly provides food for thought. But its view on humanity is too pessimistic for my taste.

PS: Thanks to Lisa of Troy, for holding a read-along which led to some amazing discussions with fellow readers.

ویلیام گلدینگ در کتاب بسیار معروف خود سالار مگس ها به سرشت شر انسان و غلبه آن بر خیر پرداخته . از نگاه او انسان همان گونه شر می سازد که زنبور عسل تولید می کند . او از آزمندی ، خشونت و خودخواهی که در ذات بشر نهادینه شده سخن گفته . به نظر گلدینگ آدمیزاد بیمار است – نه انسان هایی استثنایی ، بلکه آدم های معمولی . او در سالار مگس ها هم به همین نظریه پرداخته ، این که انسان جانور است و سرشتی جانور خو دارد .
کتاب گلدینگ در ایران بیشتر به نام سالار مگس ها ترجمه شده و به چاپ رسیده اما نشر نیلوفر عنوان کتاب را بعل زبوب انتخاب کرده . در مقدمه کتاب توضیح داده شده که بعل در زبان سامی نام هریک از خداهای محلی قدیم ، مخصوصا در سوریه و فلسطین بوده . پرستش بعل معمولا مراسمی مانند باروری و قربانی انسان همراه داشته . نام بعل که ابتدا توسط عبرانیان برای خداییان خود استفاده می شده به تدریج و در میان مبارزه میان شرک کنعانیان و توحید عبرانیان با معنای شیطان مترادف شد . بنابراین بعل زبوب یا خدای مگس ها ابتدا نام بت و خدای مردم فلسطین بوده که بعدها با تحریف یهودیان یکی از نام های شیطان شد .

سالار مگس ها ، شر همیشگی انسان و غلبه آن بر خیر

در اولین برداشت شاید بتوان کتاب مهم گلدینگ را مانند سند و مدرکی برای لزوم قانون و حاکمیت آن دانست . گلدینگ تلاش ساکنان جزیره که البته پسر بچه هایی کوچک هستند برای قانون گذاری و اعمال قانون و البته رعایت آن در محیطی مانند جنگل را به تصویر کشیده . در گام اول با انتخاب رالف به عنوان رهبر این کودکان و وضع قوانینی هرچند حداقلی و البته اجرای نصفه و نیمه قوانین توسط پسر بچه ها ، شرایط تثبیت شده و به آرامی رو به بهبود به نظر می رسد . آنان در حال ساخت پناهگاه ، جمع آوری آب شیرین و از همه مهمتر روشن کردن آتش و نگه داشتن آن برای نجات خود هستند . اما آنان که کودکانی 6 تا 12 ساله هستند نه قادر به اجرای قوانین هستند و نه اهمیت آنرا می دانند . خود رالف هم شخصیت و کاریزمای یک رهبر را ندارد . فرامین او مدام به دست جک که پسربچه ای جنگجو و ستیزه جو است به چالش کشیده می شود . کم کم پسر بچه ها به دو گروه موافق و مخالف رالف تقسیم می شوند . اکثریت به رهبری جک از گروه جدا شده و سبک و زندگی دیگری انتخاب می کند آنان شکارچی می شوند و به شکار خوک می روند . با خون ریختن و شکار کردن و رنگ کردن صورت خود با خون خوک به خوی وحشی گری خود و یا همان شر درون مجال جلوه گری می دهند و کم کم وحشی می شوند .

خوکو بکش ، سرشو ببر ، خونشو بریز

خوک در کتاب گلدینگ نقش بسیار مهمی دارد ، خوک و شکار خوک است که به جک قدرت داده و گروه شکارچی او را از گروه رالف متمایز می کند . خون خوک هم کاربردی مانند ماسک دارد ، در حقیقت همین ماسک خون آلود است که شکارچی ها را همانند وحشی ها ساخته و تفاوت بزرگی میان آنان و گروه رالف ایجاد کرده . سر خوک هم که قرار است قربانی جک به هیولا باشد عملا نمادی مانند پرچم وحشی ها را پیدا کرده و قلمرو آن ها را نشان می دهد . سر خوک در حقیقت جزیی از همان بچه هاست ، همان ذات شر که در وجود انسان است و قابل شکار نیست و با قربانی دادن هم رام نمی شود .
خوکه یکی از پسر بچه ها که به سبب چاق بودن به این نام تحقیرآمیز خوانده می شود نقش مهم در داستان گلدینگ دارد . او را می توان نماد عقل و یا دگر اندیشی میان پسر بچه ها دانست . تقریبا پشت تمامی ایده ها اوست و دیگران از جمله رالف اندیشه های او را اجرا می کنند. نویسنده ضعف همیشگی این طبقه را با نشان دادن ناتوانی بدنی خوکه بیان کرده . او بدون عینک چیزی نمی بیند و بیماری آسم دارد . خوکه نه از طرف حاکمیت و رقیب آن جدی گرفته می شو�� و نه بچه های دیگر ارزش او را قدر می دانند و سرنوشت او هم سخت دردناک است .
گلدینگ با مهارت و استادی تقابل تمدن و وحشی گری را نشان داده ، تمدن با وجود آنکه راه نجات پسربچه ها به سوی دنیای خارج است اما از آن جایی که نیاز به همکاری ، مسئولیت پذیری ، تلاش و زحمت دارد کم کم از طرف پسران نادیده گرفته می شود . دربرابر نجات ، آنان بازی ، شنا ، سرگرم شدن و شکار و خون ریزی و از میان محدودیت های وضع شده از طرف قانون و رالف ، بی قانونی ، آنارشیسم و جک را انتخاب می کنند . با دور شدن آنان از تمدن ، خوی وحشی گری در میان آنها افزایش می یابد . آنها پس از شکار خوک نوعی رقص سنتی اجرا می کنند که فرقی با آیین وحشیان ندارد . در جهان نویسنده ذات شر و خوی وحشی گری به نژاد ، رنگ ، سن و یا جنسیت بستگی ندارد و همه افراد به گونه ای آن را دارند .
پایان کتاب نشان دهنده بن بستی ایست که در جهان 1954 و هنگام جنگ سرد وجود داشته و البته الان هم به گونه ای دیگر وجود دارد . گلدینگ به خوبی پوچی ، بی هدفی و از همه مهمتر بن بست اخلاقی را در سالار مگس ها نشان داده ، جهان پدران که نابود شده و جزیره پسران هم ویران و آتش هم خاموش شده .
گلدینگ کتاب را با کنایه و طعنه به پایان رسانده ، جزیره پسران فرق چندانی با جهان ویران پدران ندارد ، گویی در جهان او مجالی برای خیر نیست و شر است که همه جهان را فرا گرفته است .

every time i think about this book, i think about that story of the group of boys who shipwrecked on an island and lived in full-on peace and harmony until their eventual rescue.

seems like you're kind of outing yourself on this one, william golding.

also every time i think about piggy to this day it makes me want to cry.

that's all i got.

this is part of a project i'm doing in which i review books i read a long time ago. this one is particularly enlightening, wouldn't you say?

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How are dictators being made? Mein Kampf, Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare, The Last King of Scotland and Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution, won't answer this question perfectly. William Golding has the perfect answer to it through this allegory.

How can a novel about a bunch of stranded school kids teach us about dictators?

This is not just a novel about school boys. This is a novel about the intricate ways the human psyche performs when it is stretched to the paramount in abominable circumstances when liberty is abundant, and everyone is equal, without any prerogatives.

This parable hits the right chord to enlighten us regarding our leniency to entropy. This is exactly how dictators are made. The boys teach us a lot of lessons through the way they behave and the areas they remain silent.

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n  What I learned from this book n
n  1) Who is the beast in the Lord of the flies? n
There is a chance that some people will try to read this novel superficially without thinking about its deeper meaning. It is the concept of the beast discussed by the author that they will ultimately get stuck after being confused. We can interpret the beast in many ways depending on our conscience.

The simplest explanation of the beast is that it is the basic instinct of savagery existing in the minds of human beings. You can interpret it in many complicated ways based on your thinking level.

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.” n

n  2) Are human beings behaving in a civilized manner just because of the laws that he has to follow? n
This is a tricky question to answer. But it becomes an easy question if you have read this book and contemplated it for some time.

“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

"The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?"

n  3) What is the easiest way to know about the personality of a person? n
Golding metaphorically tells us the easiest way to understand the personality of a person.

It is said that personality is who we are and what we do when everybody is watching and character is what we are and what we do when nobody is watching.

The way a person talks to older people, his subordinates, and disabled people tells us a lot about their character. These are the groups of people who cannot stand up as equals for their rights.

We know that adversity builds and reveals character. We can see the author's brilliance by the way how he culminated all the above-mentioned ideas and brilliantly revealed them to us through the behavior of a few stranded children.

"He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were."

n  My favourite three lines from this book n

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"

"I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth."

n  What could have been better?n
Some people may say this novel has extreme racist remarks and body shaming. There is also some content that some readers might find explicit.

This novel was published on 17 September 1954. It would be best if you kept this in the back of your mind while reading it. It is because some people are viewing this book through the current lens of political correctness they find it disturbing. That is one of the greatest injustices we can do to any literary creation.

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5/5 This novel is one among those few masterpieces that can be read in many ways depending on the reader's proclivity.

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One of my favorite books...the underlying theme of which almost all problems in society can be traced back to. Have always wondered: would the story be different if it was a group of young girls instead of young boys? Something tells me there would be more cooperation if it was a group of young girls.

Era da anni che volevo leggere questo classico moderno e finalmente col nuovo anno ci sono riuscito.

La trama è la seguente: un gruppo di studenti inglesi sta volando in aereo quando avviene un incidente e naufragano in un'isola deserta, dove muoiono gli adulti. Col tempo i bambini creano una sorta di società in cui ognuno ha il suo compito: chi va a cacciare i maiali, chi costruisce le capanne per ripararsi dalle piogge, chi prova a dettare delle leggi da rispettare ma la cosa più importante è quella di mantenere acceso il fuoco di modo che se dovesse passare una nave essi possano essere recuperati e salvati. Ma col tempo vedremo che i ragazzi diventeranno sempre più selvaggi fino a tristi epiloghi.

L'autore William Golding, Premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1983, ha creato, con questa opera, una sorta di esperimento sociale, una sorta di Grande Fratello coi bambini: cosa potrebbe succedere se dei bambini ben educati improvvisamente si ritrovano da soli, senza adulti e quindi senza regole, in un'isola deserta e devono provvedere ai loro bisogni primari? E Golding sembra risponderci così: andrà male, molto male, perché in questi bambini si risveglieranno i loro istinti animaleschi e diventeranno dei selvaggi. Quindi egli ci dice che il male è congenito nell'uomo. I bambini, quindi, hanno dentro di loro il germe della violenza che, in condizioni estreme come il vivere in un'isola deserta, si espande in tutta la sua bruttezza. Ed è quando ci viene descritta la testa del maiale ricoperta di mosche scoperta da Simone che l'autore ci descrive bene quel che intende dirci:

"Che idea pensare che la Bestia fosse qualcosa che si potesse cacciare e uccidere!" disse la testa di maiale. Per un po' la foresta e tutti gli altri posti che si potevano appena vedere risuonarono della parodia di una risata. "Lo sapevi no? ... che io sono una parte di te? Vieni vicino, vicino, vicino. Che io sono la ragione per cui non c'è niente da fare? Per cui le cose vanno come vanno?" La risata echeggiò di nuovo. "Ti metto in guardia. Sto per perdere la pazienza. Non vedi? Non c'è posto, per te. Capito? Su quest'isola ci divertiremo. Capito? Su quest'isola ci divertiremo. Dunque non provarci nemmeno, mio povero ragazzo traviato, altrimenti... " Simone si accorse che stava guardando dentro una gran bocca. Dentro c'era buio, un buio, che dilagava. "Altrimenti..." disse il Signore delle Mosche "ti faremo fuori. Capisci?"

A parlare è lo spirito del maiale, ovvero la violenza dei bambini che si era scatenata, uccidendo la povera scrofa incinta. E l'autore ci dice che la violenza chiama violenza, in un circolo vizioso che porterà solo morte e orrore. Il bene è solo un'utopia, la vera radice dell'uomo è la sopravvivenza che porta alla violenza e all'assassinio. Inutilmente Ralph prova a farsi rispettare, eletto all'unanimità "capo" della tribù dei bambini superstiti all'incidente e ben presto sostituito da Jack che incarna l'istinto di sopravvivenza più crudo e sanguinario. Sembra di rileggere ad un certo punto la storia di Caino e Abele, e sappiamo che non finirà bene. Golding ci dice e ce lo sottolinea spesso durante la lettura soprattutto nella seconda parte del romanzo, che ognuno di noi ha dentro un male "naturale", istintuale, e che può uscire fuori improvvisamente in determinate condizioni: fame, noia, odio, gelosia. La cosa terribile e bella allo stesso tempo è che ognuno dei protagonisti incarna un aspetto del nostro carattere: Ralph il raziocinio, Piggy la prudenza e la paura, Jack la cattiveria e l'istinto di sopravvivenza.

Non taccerei l'autore di pessimismo, come ho letto nella maggior parte delle recensioni, ma di realismo: nella realtà ognuno di noi se si dovesse trovare in quelle condizioni dei bambini non penso proprio che vivrebbe in pace e in armonia, o almeno lo farebbe i primi giorni, e poi...
Temo che molti di noi abbiamo paura del proprio lato oscuro, anzi, temono di ammettere che lo hanno dentro, ma vogliono nasconderlo. Golding lo scoperchia e ci mostra quanto sia putrido e orripilante. Basti pensare che l'umanità potrebbe facilmente tornare allo stato primitivo e regrediremmo sicuramente al nostro stato bestiale.

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En este mundo hay libros de los que nunca se duda el porque son clásicos y éste es uno de ellos. Con una premisa que ha sido explotadísima durante años: ¿Cómo hace un grupo de personas para sobrevivir en un ambiente aislado y reducido en recursos? Hoy en día tenemos ejemplos como TWD y Lost para alimentarnos de esta idea germinal, pero ninguno de ellos logra lo que Golding hizo en este libro, que es mostrar claramente como se va perdiendo la humanidad y la cordura.

Esta historia es para pensar, para medir y para plantearte quien eres en realidad. Cuando leí El día de los Trífidos comentaba que pareciera que las convenciones sociales son tan antinaturales que son olvidadas al primer segundo de desesperación, pero aquí es todo más sutil, más lento, la degeneración de la civilización como institución y ente rector es progresiva, pasando de momentos donde los símbolos lo son todo,dónde aquello que mantiene a flote a estos niños es el aferrarse a sus costumbres, pero Golding no se limita a darnos ese lado de la moneda, sino que nos muestra que ante la desesperación las personas se entregan a la locura, al instinto de supervivencia y al miedo, además de como colisionan ambas actitudes en un espacio tan cerrado.

La historia es intensa, y no da un sólo momento de descanso. Primera página y el autor ya nos tiene encerrados en la isla y ante la perspectiva de estar solos pero, conforme avanzamos, párrafo a párrafo nos encontramos con quienes serán nuestros líderes, Ralph y Jack, y nuestras voces de la razón, Piggy y Simon, si bien hay muchísimos niños en la historia ellos cuatro representan la naturaleza primordial de los enclaustrados, mientras que "los peques", niños de alrededor de 6 años, representan lo infantil, lo despreocupado y las masas, son la prueba irremovible de que quienes están dirigiendo son sólo niños, niños que tratan de sobrevivir pero al final del día infantes.

Es fácil ver está historia y estremecerte, no sólo tienes el enorme simbolismo presente desde el título, sino que para este punto todos sabemos que el ser humano que no esta regido bajo una sociedad bien establecida: siempre regresará a sus orígenes, a la salvajidad que lo llevo a sobrevivir por siglos y que, sin una autoridad bien definida, irá cual depredador destrozando todo a su paso y tomando lo que necesite.


Les presento al Señor de las Moscas, igual conocido como Belcebú (o Belzebú), Señor de los ejércitos para los cananeos y Príncipe de los demonios en la religión cristiana

Pero esta historia es mucho más que la metáfora de la pérdida de la inocencia y la actitud civilizada, contiene un trasfondo político interesante por decir lo menos, donde muestra tanto a dirigentes como a los consejeros sabios y realistas que muchas veces son prescindibles en la teoría pero en la práctica son mas que necesarios, y que por lo mismo son a quienes con más fervor se desea mantener o eliminar, porque son la base, la idea y el concepto. En este libro esos aspectos que son tangibles, presentes y necesarios, así como la sensación de enemistad y rivalidad que el libro transmite desde que comienza.

Si bien la historia es representada por niños, todos los temas que toca son adultos, y por lo mismo el tono carece de infantilización, narrándose de manera cruda y dura, pero adecuándose a como actuaría un infante. Incluso los líderes, que son de los mayores dentro del grupo, actúan conforme a su edad, y aquí no niego que de repente pareciera que logran arreglar las cosas de manera muy simple, pero me pongo a pensar que el libro se publico en los 50's, una época en la que los niños eran llevados a los scouts, tenían mejor condición física e incluso más imaginación dado el tipo de educación que recibían y notó que no es ilógica la manera en que actúan para su doce/trece años: tienen miedo, pero saben que deben actuar para lograr ser rescatados.

Si bien la historia tiene problemas como el hecho de que muchas veces se narran partes que parecen ser inconexas, cómo que provienen de la nada, especialmente en la primera mitad, y que de repente desconciertan, pero no se puede negar la maestría con la que el autor trato historia hasta llevarla a buen puerto, desnudando (figurativamente) a los protagonistas hacia el final: sin importar lo que pase, ya nada será lo mismo para ellos.

Intensa y terrórifica, es un imprescindible si es que te gusta conocer acerca de la naturaleza humana.


Comentario random: Esta historia inspiró la canción Lord of the Flies de Iron Maiden que, sin contar la trama, captura la naturaleza de la misma

A British airplane on fire crashes on a deserted isolated South Sea's island, in the middle of an atomic war set in the near future . All the grown-ups are killed and only children 12 and younger survive, how are they to cope (basically an allegorical story of what is human nature , good or evil ?) . Ralph is chosen leader, "Piggy" his intellectual sidekick he wears glasses, this beautiful green tropical coral isle with a blue lagoon magnificent palm trees, better yet coconut trees too and plenty of yellow bananas, other fruits are seen. Wild numerous pigs in the forest, plenty of fish in the ocean so no worries right...Wrong! Ralph has a rescue fire set which goes sadly out of control , and one of the boys is never seen again, Jack doesn't like playing second fiddle to Ralph. He takes his group of choirboys followers and leaves, to form a new fierce warrior tribe on Castle Rock, painting their faces and becoming great hunters....Since Piggy's eye glasses are the only way the kids can start a fire, Jack raids Ralph's shelter and steals it, the poor helpless boy can't function without them, blind as a bat ( I know it's a misnomer, but it sounds great). Complicating the situation is the mysterious "Beast," on the mountain is it real? Or just a legend...Earlier Simon sees the evil head of a large boar on a stick , in the middle of the forest (Lord of the Flies). He has a haunting vision and flees towards the children, scaring them all. In the darkness they believe it's the beast and have to defend themselves, with whatever weapons they possess ..a tragedy occurs. Later the two" tribes" struggle for supremacy on the island....Will the wicked inherit the Earth? And maybe the last outpost of civilization left is here... This novel is a superb narrative of today's nations wars of conquest, anything is good as long as your side wins...

Read and enjoyed this in high school amazed how well i remember this after almost two decades! i'll skip the summary since you probably know what this is about and will skip my unqualified interpretation since I'm only a butcher from Georgia!

A group of boys of all ages crash on a island. Each boy represents a ideal or personality in society Ralph is the ideal English male. piggy is the democratic ideal. Jack is the military, Simon is the religious institution. and Roger is the violent classes. not really sure what the "littlins" represent maybe British holdings around the world. i don't know why when i read that the littin with the mark disappeared i thought he must represent India. well, probably not! I'm out of my element here ask your professor. i think this represents English society boiled down to the simplest quantity a group of boys. that being said it's still a easy story to follow. even without the symbolism. so, let's talk about it without the symbolism because this is not 9th grade English class! the boys elect ralph as leader and they begin to have meetings two things are important to ralph being rescued and having fun. but soon everything starts to unravel and civilization on the island turn to savagery. everything is really well laid out and that allows for the reader to install his own beliefs which is why it's taught is school! I'm always impressed how english authors write stories allowing you to add your beliefs. this is a great book to discuss like The Giver. so, if you have not read it do so and feel free to discuss it! but don't let anyone downgrade your views!

one random thought kept sticking me as i read this. these boys went savage and they were British. what would happen if they were american. would they have even tried to work together or split from the start. one thing for sure there would be more religious representation!

(Book 508 from 1001 books) .tLord of the flies, William Golding

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.

In the midst of a wartime evacuation, a British aeroplane crashes on or near an isolated island in a remote region of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are boys in their middle childhood or preadolescence. Two boys—the fair-haired Ralph and an overweight, bespectacled boy nicknamed "Piggy"—find a conch, which Ralph uses as a horn to convene all the survivors to one area.

Ralph is optimistic, believing that grownups will come to rescue them but Piggy realises the need to organise ("put first things first and act proper").

Because Ralph appears responsible for bringing all the survivors together, he immediately commands some authority over the other boys and is quickly elected their "chief".

He does not receive the votes of the members of a boys' choir, led by the red-headed Jack Merridew, although he allows the choir boys to form a separate clique of hunters.

Ralph establishes three primary policies: to have fun, to survive, and to constantly maintain a smoke signal that could alert passing ships to their presence on the island and thus rescue them. The boys establish a form of democracy by declaring that whoever holds the conch shall also be able to speak at their formal gatherings and receive the attentive silence of the larger group.

Jack organises his choir into a hunting party responsible for discovering a food source. Ralph, Jack, and a quiet, dreamy boy named Simon soon form a loose triumvirate of leaders with Ralph as the ultimate authority.

Upon inspection of the island, the three determine that it has fruit and wild pigs for food. The boys also use Piggy's glasses to create a fire. Although he is Ralph's only real confidant, Piggy is quickly made into an outcast by his fellow "biguns" (older boys) and becomes the butt of the other boys' jokes. Simon, in addition to supervising the project of constructing shelters, feels an instinctive need to protect the "littluns" (younger boys).

The semblance of order quickly deteriorates as the majority of the boys turn idle; they give little aid in building shelters, spend their time having fun and begin to develop paranoias about the island. The central paranoia refers to a supposed monster they call the "beast", which they all slowly begin to believe exists on the island.

Ralph insists that no such beast exists, but Jack, who has started a power struggle with Ralph, gains a level of control over the group by boldly promising to kill the creature. At one point, Jack summons all of his hunters to hunt down a wild pig, drawing away those assigned to maintain the signal fire.

A ship travels by the island, but without the boys' smoke signal to alert the ship's crew, the vessel continues without stopping. Ralph angrily confronts Jack about his failure to maintain the signal; in frustration Jack assaults Piggy, breaking one of the lenses of his glasses.

The boys subsequently enjoy their first feast. Angered by the failure of the boys to attract potential rescuers, Ralph considers relinquishing his position as leader, but is persuaded not to do so by Piggy, who both understands Ralph's importance and fears what will become of him should Jack take total control. ...

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «سالار مگس ها»؛ «خداوندگار مگسها»؛ «بعل زبوب»؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ (بهجت، ابتکار، افراشته، آپادانا، ابر سفید، رهنما، امیرکبیر)؛ ادبیات انگلستان؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و پنجم ماه اکتبر سال 2012میلادی

عنوان: سالار مگس ها ؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم: حمید رفیعی؛ تهران، بهجت، 1353، در 372ص؛ چاپ سوم 1385؛ شابک 9646671918؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20م

عنوان: بعل زبوب ؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم: محمود مشرف آزاد (م آزاد)؛ تهران، ابتکار، 1363، در 270ص؛

عنوان: سالار مگس ها ؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم: رضا دیداری؛ تهران، افراشته، 1363؛ در 282ص؛

عنوان: سالار مگس ها؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم: سوسن اردکانی (شاهین)؛ تهران، آپادانا، 1363؛ در 336ص؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، ابر سفید، 1390، در 327ص؛ شابک 9786009254552؛

عنوان: سالار مگسها؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم مژگان منصوری؛ تهران، پرگل، 1379؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، رهنما، 1382؛ در 443ص؛ شابک 9643670937؛ چاپ دیگر 1385؛ چاپ بعدی 1388؛ شابک 9789643670931؛

عنوان: خداوندگار مگس ها؛ نویسنده: سر ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم: جواد پیمان؛ تهران، امیرکبیر، چاپ دوم 1395؛ در 287ص؛ شابک 9789640018743؛

عنوان: سالار مگس‌ها؛ ویلیام گلدینگ؛ مترجم ناهید شهبازی‌مقدم؛ تهران، آموت 1396؛ در 317ص؛ شابک 9786003840317؛

از جمله آثار برجسته ی کلاسیک جهان، که «ویلیام گلدینگ» در آن؛ شور و هیجان خویش را در یک قصه ی تمثیلی، با قدرت و صداقت توصیف کرده، داستان ماجرای شگفت آور گروهی پسر بچه است، در مدرسه ای «انگلیسی»، که در طی جنگ هسته ای و خانمانسوز، عازم منطقه ای امن میشوند؛ ولی سقوط هواپیما، آنها را ملزم به اقامت در جزیره ای استوایی میکند؛ در آغاز، همه چیز به خوبی پیش میرود، و آنها بی دغدغه و سبکبال، جزیره ی خوش آب و رنگ و سرسبز را، درمینوردند؛ اما اندک زمانی، پس از آن، شرارت و تندخویی پسرها، بهشت زمینی را، به دوزخی از آتش و خون، مبدل میکند، و تمامی مظاهر خرد و پاک اندیشی، از وجودشان رخت برمیبندد؛ کشمکش درونی نیروهای متضاد خیر و شر، درون مایه ی داستان را شکل میدهند

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BOYS WILL BE BOYS THERE'S A PIG'S HEAD.