Tag Archives: Lord of the Flies

Is Golding’s Novel True? Sadly, Yes

By Robin Bates | Published: May 11, 2020

A recent Guardian article about actual shipwrecked boys raises doubts about the psychology of “Lord of the Flies.” Sadly, the book is still true.

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Miami Locker Room, Lord of the Flies

By Robin Bates | Published: November 16, 2013

Richie Incognito may have played Jack in “Lord of the Flies” to Jonathan Martin’s Piggy.

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The Rape of John Lauber’s Locks

By Robin Bates | Published: May 14, 2012

The high school incident where Romney forcibly cut a classmate’s hair is less “Lord of the Flies” and more “Rape of the Lock.”

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Teaching Kids to Stand Up to Bullies

By Robin Bates | Published: September 28, 2011

Michael Gerson writes that “Lord of the Flies” gives kids a picture of the bullying they experience and “To Kill a Mockingbird” the courage to stand up to it.

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American Politics as Lord of the Flies

By Robin Bates | Published: September 22, 2011

Recent Republican political tactics against Barack Obama have me thinking of the battle in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies.”

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Emily Dickinson’s Deathbed Fly

By Robin Bates | Published: June 26, 2009

Okay, here is a second post on poems about small winged pests, written in honor of President Obama’s cool and cold-blooded killing of a fly. When I was a child, I used to enjoy the poem about “the funny old lady who swallowed a fly.” It is one of those repetition poems, with a new […]

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