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Since first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies has stood as a sort of Rorsach test. Some readers see it as a religious allegory between good and evil...others as a Freudian battle between id vs. superego...still others as a history of the rise of civilization. Finally, many see it as a commentary on the world's political institutions.Any, in fact all of those readings lend themselves to Golding's chilling tale of boys gone bad. Read more
LitLovers LitPicks - Dec. 2011