Golding thinks we live in " two worlds", one physical and the other spiritual, and that the experience of the " two worlds" is basically emblematic of our nature. For Golding who most often uses the conventional religious terms, "physical" and "spiritual", to identify the polarity, the "physical" is equated with the rational. He sees the rational view of experience as denying the irrational, the mysterious or the "spiritual". All this leads to a structural principle that has become Golding's hallmark-polarities expressed in moral tension.
With his keen insight,William Golding becomes very conscious of the darkness of the human heart and the necessity that we become aware of this darkness if we are to save ourselves. All his novels,therefore,attempt to deal with the essential human condition. All Golding's novels,products of his peculiar literary temperament and habit,are reactive experiments. Each of them represents a response to a specific book by an early writer.
Though he is unmistakably a serious writer dealing with the most serious moral issues, William Golding has no dread of rhetoric. He is drown to rather than deterred by poetry and his fiction always has a dense and often poetic verbal texture, in which metaphor and image work as they do in poetry, and enrich and modify the bare significance of the moral form. As a poetic novelist, in addition to reviving a moribund novel with a new and exciting subject, he has also reinvigorated the language with a new and more eloquent mode of discourse.
