• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The link above had this to say about the author:

    I learned what an unhappy individual he had been: an alcoholic, prone to depression. “I have always understood the Nazis,” Golding confessed, “because I am of that sort by nature.” And it was “partly out of that sad self-knowledge” that he wrote Lord of the Flies.

    So not necessarily allegory. It seems more a bleak worldview portrayed through fiction.