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The Island as a Social Experiment

The Island as a Social Experiment

After a wartime evacuation crash, a group of British schoolboys are stranded on an uninhabited island. Golding turns the island into a social experiment: the boys must decide whether authority, cooperation and civilisation can survive without adults.

1.3.1 Lord of the Flies by William Golding Lesson

  1. GCSE
  2. /English Literature
  3. /1.3.1 Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Step-by-step lessons on Eduqas GCSE English Literature 1.3.1 Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Work through your set texts (Shakespeare, the 19th-century prose text, the post-1914 text, and the poetry anthology) alongside regular unseen-poetry practice, since Component 2's unseen poetry section is usually the most time-pressured on exam day.

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