Lord of the Flies toward the will to power. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. How these play out, and how different people feel the influences of these form a major subtext of "Lord of the Flies". The name "Lord of the Flies" is a literal translation of Beelzebub, from . In February 1960, Floyd C. Gale of "Galaxy Science Fiction" rated "Lord of the Flies" five stars out of five, stating that "Golding paints a truly terrifying picture of the decay of a minuscule society ... Well on its way to
The Word of the Lord him hold his hand. In addition to the testimonies of the two "scribes" (Fetting and Draves), the book contains an additional testimony of four witnesses who saw the angel during his final visit to Fetting in 1933. This latter testimony is signed and notarized. In the preface to his first message, and in his 1940 personal testimony about the heavenly "messenger", William Draves wrote the following: Because the messenger could be seen and touched, some in Draves' church have expressed a belief that the messages in the "Word of the Lord" are not revelations, since for a revelation (according to