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Describes wartime Royal Navy service and how experiences of cruelty influenced his themes. Summarizes his novels—especially Lord of the Flies (1954)—and explains recurring motifs: spiritual pessimism, allegory, and the conflict between civilized order and latent human evil amid postwar political tensions.","Biography of william Golding (1911-1993),\nJohn Carey, an editor, once said:  \"WHILE  WILLIAM  GOLDING the novelist is famous , William Golding the person \"remains virtually unknown ” ( Haugrud Reiff  , 9) .\nWilliam Golding is an English novelist. He was born in Cornwall, England in 1911. His literature is often associated with evilness and corruption of the human being.\nWilliam Gerald Golding has been recognized as a spiritual pessimistic British novelist who uses  both allegory and his novels to depict the struggle between  a man's  civilized nature and his evil uncivilized hidden nature. (William Golding)\nHis father was a teacher at Marlborough Grammar School. William was educated  there , and later at Brasenose College in Oxford , England . He graduated in 1935 . After graduation , Sir William Golding worked in a settlement house and in small theatre companies , but later he was appointed as a  schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury .  After the WW ӏӏ broke out , Golding joined the  Royal Navy in 1940. In the war , he witnessed many events and took part in the action  as the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck  and commanding a military campaign during the invasion of France in 1944. After the WW ӏӏ , Golding  resumed  his career as a schoolmaster in Bishop Worsworth's  School until 1961 to devote  himself to write full time. (\"Golding , sir William(British novelist)\")\nIt was believed that the period of five years (1940-1945) made an influence on Golding's life since he witnessed the cruelty and savagery of human nature. In his writings, he gives readers a portray of his wartime experiences. He declared once that 'human beings can produce evil as bees make honey, ( Kelly , 3)\nIn the beginning of his career, Three of his early novels were never be published and lacked success since no publisher was interested in them.  Golding's first successful work was Lord of the Flies(1954). The next year, The Inhiritors (1955) appeared, and it was his second  reputable literary work. It discussed the struggle of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon hominids.  Pincher Martin(1956) is also one of his famous novels. As in the previous novels, Golding sought to question the border lines among the various dichotomies and oppositions as: sacred and profane , good and evil. Free Fall and the Spire are two other novels of his own which depict the life as a variety of oppositions and the world is a place which turned upside down(Crawford,2002.p 10)\nWilliam Golding's most popular work was Lord of the Flies which was published in 1954 earned its reputation due to certain factors.  William Golding, as a writer who depicts the melancholies and depressions of the world, was a satirist who attempted to highlight the flaws of human societies due to the blemish of human nature. The novel is regarded as a symbolic book which has  reference to society, ethics and politics.(Babb, 1970).\nThe time when the novel was first published was an age of critical situations. It was a time of the postmodern era. Gindin (1988) asserts that the time when the novel was written was a ʽtime of great grief, (21).  This masterpiece was written and published nearly a decade after the end of the WWII. It was in a time when the world was still affected by the crimes and the heinousness of The Second World War as the Holocaust and the atomic bombs. This work was also brought to the light in a dark period of the postmodern world called the ʽCold War, .\nIt was a time when the Communist waves were threatening the west behind the Iron Curtain , in addition to the fear of socio-economic distress and rapid technology advancements. Golding's Lord of the Flies was a symbolic in terms of characters and events. One of the events  in the novel is the joining of the hunters to Jack, and  the sacrifice of moral reservation which symbolize the age after The First World War when Germany had  economic  problems , and this led to the emergence of Hitler's Nazism  (Kelly,2000)","cbCaivh3l8GHl487","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivh3l8GHl487","docx",15578,5,1,3,"English","en",105,"# Biography and background\n## Education and early career\n## World War II service and influence\n# Writing themes and major works\n## Allegory and the civilized vs. evil nature\n## Key novels: Lord of the Flies and others\n# Reception, era context, and symbolism","[{\"question\":\"Where was William Golding born and how was he educated?\",\"answer\":\"He was born in Cornwall, England in 1911. 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