Abstract and Key Words

Abstract: This paper aims to make a creative probe of the unique artistic writing techniques employed in the Lord of the Flies. And mainly it focuses on symbolism, foreshadowing as well as the ending. At the same time the paper analyses many striking and complicated symbols to suggest difficult human conditions. These symbols make the plot and meaning of the novel clear and easy to understand. The ending is of great importance to this novel. It turns suddenly and actually offers readers a complete comprehension of the whole story. The unique artistic writing techniques employed in the Lord of the Flies not only make the plot smooth, but also uncover the deeper connotation of this novel.

Key words: Lord of the Flies   symbolism   characters

摘要：本文旨在对《蝇王》中所运用的独特写作艺术技巧进行一番创新式的探究，主要从象征，预示手法和小说的结局入手。同时本文力图深入分析小说中错综复杂，引人入胜的象征意义。这些象征意义使小说的情节清晰易懂。结尾手法奇特，令人耳目一新，突出主题。小说《蝇王》中所运用的独特写作艺术手法不仅铺垫情节，而且彰显小说主题。

关键词：《蝇王》；象征手法；人物

1.    Introduction
1.1 William Golding
William Golding was born in the village of St. Columb Minor in Cornwall in 1911. His father was a schoolmaster who had radical convictions in politics and a strong faith in science and his mother was active in the suffragette movement Sir William Gerald Golding was educated at the Marlborough Grammar School, where his father taught, and later at Brasenose College, Oxford. As a child Golding enjoyed himself in reading books. His reading in his childhood exerted a deep and lasting influence on his later writing. Although educated to be a scientist at the wishes of his father, he soon developed a great interest in literature, becoming first devoted to Anglo-Saxon literature and then writing poetry. At Oxford he studied English literature and philosophy. His first book, a collection of poems which he has said that he would rather forget it appeared a year before Golding received his B.A.  Following a short period of time in which he worked at a settlement house and in small theater companies as both an actor and a writer, Golding became a schoolmaster at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy and was involved in the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck, and Normandy Invasion but following the war he returned to Bishop Wordsworth's School, where he taught until the early sixties.