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
Lord of the Flies (1963 film) the Department of Film at MoMA, wrote that the film is "about anarchy and how that thin veneer we wear of what we refer to as “civilization” is threatened by the attractive clarion call of bestiality and its accompanying hatred". The parents of those chosen are reported to have been provided copies of the novel, from which a commentary had been physically removed; those pages included describing the culmination of the hunt of a wild sow as an "Œdipal wedding night". Brook noted that "time was short; we were lent the children by unexpectedly eager parents just for the duration