Lord Of The Flies By William Goulding

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What is feminist criticism? What is WIlliam Goulding trying to communicate to us about feminism in his novel Lord of the Flies? Feminist criticism is reading and critiquing how a text is written and language that is used to expose masculine ideology. There are no girls in Lord of the Flies so how could it have to do with feminism? Goulding shows feminism by displaying characters as how society portrays women. Stereotypical feminine traits are being dependent, emotional, sensitive and weak. In an interview while William Goulding talks about creating Lord of the Flies he explains why he wrote the book about little boys: “Boys are like a scaled down society” and that “Girls wouldn’t be an image of society.” When saying this he means the story

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