William Golding’s novels constitute a moral theatre in which the tragic drama of man’s desire to make meaning in the face of chaos, created by himself is enacted. The power that science and technology has given him has made him assume a psuedodivine autonomy. The creator of the humanist Frankenstrin threatens to lead humanity to technological and thermonuclear disaster. “The world around us is sliding down and down, through an rich into stormy welter where ...
