... the story is more about the inner evil of mankind than about the boys themselves. The Lord of the Flies is an English translation of the Hebrew term "Beelzebub-, which is the personification of evil in the Judaic and Christian traditions. (Dick, Bernard F, William Golding, Twayne Publishers, New York, 1967, page 27). Golding uses the Lord of the Flies to symbolize the theme of man's inner evil. The Lord of the Flies can also be translated as "Lord of Dung-. It is therefore not the same Satan, who ... starts off in the barbarian form. His violent impulses make him an example of Golding's c...

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