Films for the Humanities and Sciences

William Golding

William Golding’s power to create contemporary myth is unparalleled in modern literature. In this program, Golding, his daughter, and others discuss his life as a child, father, and naval officer in World War II. They also summarize his views on human nature. Excerpts from several works—including The Inheritors and Pincher Martin—are used to illustrate those who inhabit Golding’s fiction as anarchic, rootless, and with the capacity for evil. Golding provides insight into the characters in his most famous work—Lord of the Flies—as individuals “who saw evil as something external to themselves.” Excerpts from an early work, Fables, illustrate Golding’s revulsion for Nazi fascism and the Holocaust. A BBC Production. (53 minutes)

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Item#: BVL7368
Copyright date: ©1996
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-7592-2

Part of the Series : Great Writers of the 20th Century


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