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s is William Golding’s most famous novel. Time and Tide called it “not only a first-rate adventure story but a parable of our times.”
 
The novel was chosen by Time magazine as one as the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. The title of the book comes from Greek “Beelzebub” means evil of Satan in Bible . In the novel it is a sow’s head, the symbol of the power of evil, which lies within every human’s heart. The novel begins when two boys, Ralph and Piggy, find themselves next to a plane crash site, they are unaware of their surroundings. The boys soon find a conch shell and Piggy suggests that Ralph blows on the conch to call for any others who might be nearby. The situation soon becomes apparent；there are many British school boys and no adults. The boys are divided into the “biguns” (older boys) and the “littluns”(smaller boys). Ralph, one of the “biguns”, holds an impromptu election and becomes the chief of the boys, beating another elder boy, Jack, who was competing for the position. Ralph quickly calls everyone together to work toward two common goals, the first being to have fun and the second to be rescued by creating a constant fire signal, to be lit using Piggy’s glasses. Some of the boys then go exploring and it is discovered they are on a small island.
 
For a time things on the island are civil, all the boys work toward building shelters, gathering food and water, and generally surviving. The one goal which constantly gets sidelined is keeping the signal fire going as some of the boys, the

hunters, led by Jack focus their energy on hunting the wild pigs on the island. The children’s belief in a Beast on the island also creates a problem. The children begin to split into two groups, based on the existence of the beast. Ralph attempts to disprove the existence of the beast while Jack exploits the belief in the beast to encourage his group of hunters. Jack soon forms a separate tribe from Ralph’s. Jack gains defectors from Ralph’s tribe by promising them meat from hunting, fun, and most importantly protection from the beast. Jack’s tribe gradually becomes more savage and they adopt face paint. Jack and his tribe of hunters eventually murder one of the other boys, Simon. They then raid Ralph’s camp, attacking the non-hunters in order to steal Piggy’s glasses in order to make a cooking fire.
 
By this time Ralph’s tribe consists of just himself, Piggy, and two twins named Sam and Eric. They all go to the rock fort of Jack’s tribe to try to get back Piggy’s glasses so he can see. In the ensuing confrontation Piggy is killed by Roger. Sam and Eric are captured and both become part of Jack’s tribe, leaving Ralph by himself.
 
In the final sequence of the book Jack and his friend Roger lead the tribe of hunter on a hunt for Ralph, intending to kill him. In order to do this Jack sets the entire island on fire. The fire is so large that it attracts the attention of a nearby warship which comes to the island and rescues the boys. A navy officer lands on the island and his sudden appearance brings the children’s fighting to an abrupt halt. When learning of the boys’ activities the officer remarks that he would have expected “better” from British boys.
    

    Ⅱ.The Dualism of Human Nature
 
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