I take from Golding's focus on the dark side of human nature, not that he's pessimistic, but that he wants us to be aware of that dark side and it's destructive potential.
And I wonder if his proclivity toward revealing the dark potential of human nature is rooted in his own guilt over attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was an 18-year-old undergraduate at Oxford.
And I wonder if his proclivity toward revealing the dark potential of human nature is rooted in his own guilt over attempting to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was an 18-year-old undergraduate at Oxford.
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