Lord The Flies Postmodernism Analysis

I have been reading the book Lord The Flies, by the author named William Golding. The book was given out in 1954, which leads us into the literary period of Postmodernism. The most common trait for this period is the very increasing diversity between the different novels written. In the earlier periods, the authors wanted to be fairly grounded, concrete and structured; but now they wanted more of the abstract and unrealistic plots, and often with paradoxes of various kinds. It is also said that authors of the Postmodern period after World War II very often saw the world as troubled and fragmented, like it was on the edge of disaster. Many of the writers were also suffering from psychological problems, such as paranoia. The book is about a group of young brittish boys that get stranded at an deserted island, completely without adults. After a short period of time, the boys realized that they were going to have to build up some sort of society with rules for them to follow, to be able to survive on the Island. The story is basically about a group of young boys, all by themselves, in a world were the more enrichened minds of adults assurely are needed. This germinates a vivid plot where something that from the beginning started out as a harmless game, finally results as a matter of life and dead for every

My personal opinion about this novel is that it is completely wicked in so many ways, even though , I really love it! Golding has a way of retelling the plot as a narrator that makes you fall in to the setting in a way that is fairly hard to describe. I would also say that it feels vintage in a way, its written 1954 and you can see the current situations and problems in the world at the time, reflect in the way that the story develops. It is also interesting that there are children as basically all the characters in the plot, it gives the story a great twist. I do not think that it would be the same thing if there were a bunch of adults stranded like