Moral Vision William Golding

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 ,morale, family and private obligations have no place. There is anarchy in the mind and anarchy in the world at large.” (FREE FALL). By setting himself the formidable task of giving artistic expression to his experience and view of life Golding has earned a place of distinction among the writers of novels with a deep moralistic significance. In his efforts to trace ‘mankinds essential illness, he lays his fingers on the moral pulse of his age, and tries to convey the eternal truth’. ‘Turn to God there is Light, turn away from Him there is Darkness’.