The Female World of William Golding

  William Golding was versatile genius. He wrote novels, plays, short stories, poems and essays. With all these talents, he was sure to win the best of honours in the world of literature. William Golding presents a variety of women characters in his fictional world: As a novelist he has a deep penetrating insight into the life of modern men and women. The women's world in William Golding is not very large. His basic concern is to make a psychological study of man-woman relationship. In his novels we see that sometimes woman has a free fall and other times she becomes an agent in the hands of man to add to the decline of human values. Family in British society is a small unit: it is not as vast as it is in the Eastern society. There are families in William Golding but they are in most of the cases, single units, When we read William Golding's novels, we find that the central characters in novels are men. There are less women characters in his novels. But still they play an important role in the novels. He presents women in various roles. They are teachers, housewives, clerks, nurses, students, labourers and prostitutes. The female world of William Golding is very limited but significant