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…showed last 75 words of 1822 total…Golding's thesis comes not from the imaginary events on the island but from the reality of the reader's response to them. Our minds turn to the outrages of our century - the slaughter of the first war, the concentration camps and atom-bombs of the second - and we realise that Golding has compelled us to acknowledge that there is in each of us a hidden recess which horrifyingly declares our complicity in torture and murder...