Lord of the Flies: a timely Netflix remount reexamines hate, power, and modern masculinity

BBC Culture argues that William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a 1954 novel long seen as a microcosm of society, remains strikingly relevant as Netflix debuts a new series by Jack Thorne told from four boys’ perspectives; the adaptation adds backstories and preserves the island’s power struggle to explore themes of evil, order, and masculinity in a troubled world, contextualized by its Cold War origins and ongoing concerns about how youth inherit and mirror adult divides.