Question: At what time period does "The Lord of the Flies" take place? I am looking for a specific era for a project. Anything really helps.

Answer: Time of Work: An indeterminate time in the future.\n\nThe novel presumes an atomic war that threatens to wipe out civilization and a small group of children managing to survive on a previously uninhabited island. Its asks whether such children will re-create the democratic civilization they have experienced during their short lives or instead, because of animal survival instincts, revert to some precivilized form of existence.
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