 Re: literary periods
Hello Mad-ox
I'm not sure where I'd put Lord of the Flies. It's a curious mixture of allegory and 1930s/1940s realism. On the other hand, it contains many references to Ballantyne's Coral Island, and so has incipient post-modern aspects.
Other novels of this kind are Orwell's Animal Farm, Huxley's Brave New World, and Warner's Aerodrome. You could class them as dystopias, perhaps.
Does your teacher say why he thinks of it as modernist?
All the best,
MrP |