Even if you haven’t read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, you probably know the basic outline. A group of young boys is stranded on a deserted island and must survive, though soon descend into cruelty, savagery, and violence. It’s a pessimistic view of humanity, arguing that so-called civilized people are a few bad days away from abandoning all morality.
But Lord of the Flies actually happened, and the outcome was very different from Golding’s predictions.
