Eco-ethical Consciousness in the Desert Island Novel Lord of the Flies

Taking Lord of the Flies, a classic of desert island novels, as an example, the thesis aims to explore the ecological and ethical wholeness of man and nature implied in the work, and how the ecological and ethical imbalance between man and nature will inevitably lead to the imbalance of human spiritual ecology, highlighting the writer’s deep ecological and ethical concern.

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