Jack Thorne brings Piggy, Ralph, Jack and their paradise-gone-wrong to limited series life in Netflix’s ‘Lord of the Flies.’

  • glimse
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    1 month ago

    Is that really the message? I haven’t read it since I was a kid but I remember walking away thinking “power hungry people destroy civilizations”

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      1 month ago

      Yes, the author wanted to illustrate that people would be selfish savages as a contrast to other works at the time he disagreed with.