The Civilization Digression of the Children in the Story "Lord of the Flies"

The characters in Golding's Lord of the Flies are a group of schoolboys, stamped through with Britishness like seaside rock, educated by public schools in a system designed to overwhelm an empire and uses the slang and jargon common to their time. Since Golding is describing a community of children with adult readers in mind, the credibility of the characters is a prerequisite. In addition, they have to be made convincing in an imaginary situation, and this is Golding's particular achievement-Golding has apparently chosen a conventional technique of isolating people in an island. …