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[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AnalogyAddict@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

A bleak self-image, even.