The island - is it really the tropical paradise that it is at first made out to be? How does Golding show this? The sea is first shown as calm and inviting. It is a place in which to play and have ...

William Golding's 1954 novel, which follows a group of young boys stranded on an island, has been adapted to the screen twice before in the 1963 and 1990 Lord of the Flies films. Last year ...