Characters and Images on Lord of the Flies
朱娟
(宁夏大学 外国语学院,
宁夏 银川 750021)
Abstract: William Golding’s masterpiece, Lord of the Flies, enabled him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983. Golding considered
this novel as a myth, since he applied plenty of archetypes from Greek mythology and the Bible to this novel. This thesis is to ana⁃
lyze the main characters and images in it from a myth-archetypal perspective to reveal the author’s writing purpose.
Key words: William Golding; Lord of the Flies; Archetypal criticism…
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