{"id":655945,"date":"2026-05-08T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:24:08","slug":"1950s-novel-lord-of-the-flies-is-the-ultimate-study-of-hate-and-division-it-has-never-been-more-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/655945\/","title":{"rendered":"1950s novel Lord of The Flies is the ultimate study of hate and division. It has never been more relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 HooNV\">But the book has only one specific reference, to &#8220;the Reds&#8221;, hinting at the Cold War, and that vagueness has made it far more open to various interpretations over the decades. Carver says: &#8220;To begin with, people saw it in very clearly religious terms and made Simon, as I think he was meant to be, into a Christ figure.&#8221; More recently, she notes, &#8220;the environmental angle has come to the fore&#8221; \u2013 with people referencing, for example, the way the boys set fire to the island \u2013 while she also believes that today &#8220;it&#8217;s hard to ignore the rise of autocratic rulers around the world, and to not see that in terms of Jack\u2026 the rules of warfare, the rules of the right to a fair trial, all these things are on a knife edge and I think the book is relevant to that&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But the book has only one specific reference, to &#8220;the Reds&#8221;, hinting at the Cold War, and that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-655945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}