"What, you wonder, could possibly have prompted the powers that be to commission an adaptation of a postwar allegory that throws into dreadful relief the impulse to tyranny, the fragility of democracy and the brittleness of our veneer of civilisation in this shining year of 2026? We may never know. Did I mention it takes place on an island in which all normal social rules no longer apply and the inhabitants are protected from any punishment or consequence, no matter what appetites emerge?"
"He borrowed character names and made other references to Ballantyne's book in his own, but Golding's story is its dark counterpoint; a suggestion that if men are left to rule the world untrammelled there will soon not be many of them, or much of the world, left to dominate. I know what an imagination, right? Thorne's four-part adaptation brings a different character to the forefront in each episode."
Jack Thorne adapts William Golding’s 1954 Lord of the Flies into a four-part series that spotlights tyranny, the fragility of democracy and the thin veneer of civilisation. A planeload of boys is stranded on a tropical island where normal social rules no longer apply and there are no consequences for horrific appetites. Each episode foregrounds a different character, beginning with Piggy (David McKenna) waking after the crash with his spectacles intact and joining Ralph (Winston Sawyers) to gather the castaways. The choirboys, led by Jack (Lox Pratt), set up the central conflict between order and emergent savagery. Golding’s novel originated as a dark counterpoint to The Coral Island.
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