Study questions:
What is the role of environment in Lord of the Flies?
In what ways do you think the novel constructs a dystopian vision of power?
Why is it not Piggy who has the encounter with the “lord of the flies”?
How would you compare Simon’s death with that of Piggy?
What is the function of the narrator in the novel? What are the different modes of narration employed in the text?
When is the “beast” first mentioned in the novel?
When is Jack first referred to as a “savage” in the novel?
In what ways do you think the island setting becomes a symbolic manifestation of contrasting forces?
What do the references to Ballantyne’s Coral Island indicate?
Where do they appear in the text?
In what sense does the novel display traditional social realism?
Can we interpret the novel as “a social fable”?
