Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakaahuatia e Golding tana kaupapa tōrangapū hei "maui kaha". I te tau 1932, i whakaputaina e te Hogarth Press a Golding "He reta ki a Adolf Hitler", he whakaeke ki te anti-Semitism me te Nacism. I te tau 1940, i whakahe ano a Golding i te
Te whakaekenga a te Soviet o Finland.