... The venturesome novel, Lord of the Flies, is an enchanting,audacious accountthat depicts the defects of society as the incorrigiblenature of individuals when they areimmature ... accountsfor the savage nature of the children in the novel. He said, " ;The warwasunlike any other fought in Europe. It taught us not fighting, politics, or the follies ofnationalism, but about the ... nature of man." After the war hereturned to teachingand wrote his first novel, Lord of the Flies, which wasfinally accepted for publication in19 54. In 1983, the novel received the Noble...