The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months
When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman
I read Bregman’s book and can recommend it. The boys in question collaborated, grew crops and fished. Whenever they had a fight amongst them they’d retreat to cool down. One of them broke his leg and the others cared for him.
Hey, thanks man, that was an interesting read, perfect for insomniacs trying to fall asleep.
Honestly, I think six is likely the right number for this to work. I don’t recall how many boys were in Lord of the Flies, but you get to 10-15 and you’re absolutely going to start forming factions. And a hierarchy. And with more opinions you get more disagreements, and you’re right back to Lord of the Flies.
Yeah, fragmenting into groups was an important part of the book.
that’s a confident assertion with 0 evidence
Anyone know what the movie mentioned in the article is called? Could be a fun niche watch.
The movie mentioned turned out to be a 10 minutes long documentary:
The name of that book is kinda stupid, IMO.
None of those kids even have the ability to command flies.
I was expecting one of the boys to get complete mastery of the word “the”, then get the power of flight so he could leave the island. So disappointed.
“Shucks to your Ass-mar” Said Ralph, as his face grew white, his eyes lost focus, and a telltale buzzing began emanating from somewhere deep inside of him. His mouth drooped low and spread wide forming a horrifying O at least two feet in diameter. The buzzing became louder and more frantic, as thousands of flies began to spill from his mouth, hurtling towards the small, fat boy in front of him who even now was attempting, futilely, to run from the buzzing, angry, hungry swarm of flies.
“He truly is” said one of the other boys, glad not to be the object of Ralph’s ire for once “the lord of the flies”
I don’t remember it very well but I thought the title was a reference to something hypothetical one of the kids thought of
Like they saw something they didn’t fully understand and extrapolated that the thing they were seeing was the lord of the flies
Baal-zebub: Baal is “lord” or “master”, zebub means “fly”.
Watch out for that boulder, Piggy
Sucks to your assmar
Spoiler alert: >!Piggy died.!<
the spoiler didn’t work for me, but I’ve already read it
this is how my world history teacher introduced us to locke and hobbes
Still better than the class about John Wayne Gacy, taught by Pogo the Clown.
