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Lord of the Flies

Index Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. [1]

80 relations: A High Wind in Jamaica (novel), Airplane, Alkitrang Dugo, Allegory, American Library Association, Anthony Gross, Batavia (ship), BBC, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, Beelzebub, Blues Traveler, Boy (album), Castle Rock (Stephen King), Castle Rock Entertainment, Challenge (literature), Children's Literature (journal), Civilization, Common good, Conch, Cujo, Das Bus, David Siegel (screenwriter), Desert island, Dogfight, English language, ENotes, Epilepsy, Faber and Faber, Fighter pilot, Flesh fly, Galaxy Science Fiction, Groupthink, Harry Hook, Heart of Darkness, Hearts in Atlantis, Human nature, Iron Maiden, Island mentality, Jaime Clarke, Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, Kuusankoski, Lord of the Flies (1963 film), Lord of the Flies (1990 film), Lord of the Flies (song), Misery (novel), Modern Library 100 Best Novels, Nigel Williams (author), Nobel Prize in Literature, ..., Paranoia, Peter Brook, Pig, Preadolescence, R. M. Ballantyne, Radiohead, Realistic conflict theory, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Rob Reiner, Royal Shakespeare Company, Ruth Wilson, Sasha Yevtushenko, Scott McGehee, Smoke signal, State of nature, Stephen King, The Big Read, The Coral Island, The Simpsons, The X Factor (album), Time (magazine), Timothy Sheader, To Kill a Mockingbird, Triumvirate, Two Years' Vacation, U2, Warner Bros., WhatsOnStage Awards, Will to power, William Golding. Expand index (30 more) »

A High Wind in Jamaica (novel)

A High Wind in Jamaica is a 1929 novel by the Welsh writer Richard Hughes, which was made into a film of the same name in 1965.

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Airplane

An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a powered, fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller or rocket engine.

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Alkitrang Dugo

Alkitrang Dugo is a 1976 Filipino film based on the novel Lord of the Flies by English novelist Sir William Golding.

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Allegory

As a literary device, an allegory is a metaphor in which a character, place or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.

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American Library Association

The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.

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Anthony Gross

Anthony Gross CBE, RA (1905–1984), was a British printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent.

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Batavia (ship)

Batavia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Radio 4 Extra

BBC Radio 4 Extra is a British digital radio station broadcasting archive repeats of comedy, drama and documentary programmes nationally, 24 hours a day.

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Beelzebub

Beelzebub or Beelzebul (or; בַּעַל זְבוּב Baʿal Zəvûv) is a name derived from a Philistine god, formerly worshipped in Ekron, and later adopted by some Abrahamic religions as a major demon.

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Blues Traveler

Blues Traveler is an American rock band formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987.

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Boy (album)

Boy is the debut studio album by Irish rock band U2.

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Castle Rock (Stephen King)

Castle Rock is part of Stephen King's fictional Maine topography and provides the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories.

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Castle Rock Entertainment

Castle Rock Entertainment is an American film and television production company founded in 1987 by Martin Shafer, director Rob Reiner, Andrew Scheinman, Glenn Padnick and Alan Horn.

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Challenge (literature)

Challenged literature, a phenomenon that dates back to the early 1850's with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is the attempt by a person or group of people to have literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum according to the American Library Association (ALA).

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Children's Literature (journal)

Children’s Literature is an academic journal and annual publication of the Modern Language Association and the Children’s Literature Association Division on Children's Literature.

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Civilization

A civilization or civilisation (see English spelling differences) is any complex society characterized by urban development, social stratification imposed by a cultural elite, symbolic systems of communication (for example, writing systems), and a perceived separation from and domination over the natural environment.

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Common good

In philosophy, economics, and political science, the common good (also commonwealth, common weal or general welfare) refers to either what is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community, or alternatively, what is achieved by citizenship, collective action, and active participation in the realm of politics and public service.

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Conch

Conch is a common name that is applied to a number of different medium to large-sized shells.

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Cujo

Cujo is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King, about a rabid dog.

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Das Bus

"Das Bus" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' ninth season.

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David Siegel (screenwriter)

David Siegel is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, and part of a long-standing writing-directing-producing team with filmmaker Scott McGehee.

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Desert island

A deserted island or uninhabited island is an island that is not permanently populated by humans.

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Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft, conducted at close range.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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ENotes

eNotes is a student and teacher educational website founded in 1998, that provides material to help students complete homework assignments and study for exams.

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Fighter pilot

A fighter pilot is a military aviator trained to engage in air-to-air combat while in the cockpit of a fighter aircraft.

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Flesh fly

Flies in the family Sarcophagidae (from the Greek σάρκο sarco-.

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Galaxy Science Fiction

Galaxy Science Fiction was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1950 to 1980.

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Groupthink

Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

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Harry Hook

Harry Hook (born 1960) is an English screenwriter, film/television director and photographer.

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State, in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Charles Marlow.

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Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of two novellas and three short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order.

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Human nature

Human nature is a bundle of fundamental characteristics—including ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—which humans tend to have naturally.

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Iron Maiden

Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris.

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Island mentality

Island mentality refers to the notion of isolated communities perceiving themselves as exceptional or superior to the rest of the world.

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Jaime Clarke

Jaime Clarke (born 1971) is an American novelist and editor.

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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language.

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Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne (Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a neighborhood of city of Kouvola, former industrial town and municipality of Finland, located in the region of Kymenlaakso in the province of Southern Finland.

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Lord of the Flies (1963 film)

Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British drama film, based on William Golding's novel of the same name about 30 schoolboys who are marooned on an island where they become savages.

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Lord of the Flies (1990 film)

Lord of the Flies is a 1990 American survival drama film directed by Harry Hook and starring Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly and James Badge Dale.

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Lord of the Flies (song)

"Lord of the Flies" is an Iron Maiden single and second track on their 1995 album The X Factor.

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Misery (novel)

Misery is a 1987 psychological horror thriller novel by Stephen King.

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Modern Library 100 Best Novels

Modern Library's 100 Best Novels is a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century as selected by the Modern Library, an American publishing company owned by Random House.

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Nigel Williams (author)

Nigel Williams (born 20 January 1948) is an English novelist, screenwriter and playwright.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

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Peter Brook

Peter Stephen Paul Brook, CH, CBE (born 21 March 1925) is an English theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s.

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Preadolescence

Preadolescence, also known as pre-teen or tween, is a stage of human development following early childhood and preceding adolescence.

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R. M. Ballantyne

Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote more than 100 books.

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Radiohead

Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985.

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Realistic conflict theory

Realistic conflict theory (initialized RCT), also known as realistic group conflict theory (initialized RGCT), is a social psychological model of intergroup conflict.

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Regent's Park Open Air Theatre

Regent's Park Open Air Theatre is an open-air theatre based in Regent's Park in central London.

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Rob Reiner

Robert Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, writer, director, producer, and activist.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Ruth Wilson

Ruth Wilson (born 13 January 1982) is an English actress.

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Sasha Yevtushenko

Alexander "Sasha" Yevtushenko (born January 31, 1979) is a director and producer of radio dramas for BBC Radio.

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Scott McGehee

Scott McGehee (born April 20, 1962) is an American film director and screenwriter.

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Smoke signal

The smoke signal is one of the oldest forms of long-distance communication.

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State of nature

The state of nature is a concept used in moral and political philosophy, religion, social contract theories and international law to denote the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies came into existence.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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The Big Read

The Big Read was a survey on books carried out by the BBC in the United Kingdom in 2003, where over three quarters of a million votes were received from the British public to find the nation's best-loved novel of all time.

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The Coral Island

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The X Factor (album)

The X Factor is the tenth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 2 October 1995 through EMI.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Timothy Sheader

Timothy Sheader (born 23 November 1971, Scarborough, North Yorkshire) is a British theatre director.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960.

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Triumvirate

A triumvirate (triumvirātus) is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (triumviri).

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Two Years' Vacation

Two Years' Vacation (Deux ans de vacances) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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WhatsOnStage Awards

The WhatsOnStage Awards, or alternatively, the WhatsOnStage "theatregoers' choice" prizes, formerly known as the Theatregoers' Choice Awards, are organised by the theatre website WhatsOnStage.com.

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Will to power

The will to power (der Wille zur Macht) is a prominent concept in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.

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William Golding

Sir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies

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