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Lord of the Flies manuscript- an overview

Preamble:

(if you don’t care about this, I start talking about the actual manuscript under the cut. but be warned- it is very long)

So as some of you know if you’ve been following my blog, I have been wanting to go and see the original first draft of Lord of the Flies (handwritten by William Golding in a college notebook and currently held by the University of Exeter’s special collections here in the UK) for a really long time now! It took a while, but today I finally went! I’m sure a lot of you are curious about how it differs from the final book so I decided to put together a list of things I noticed. Unfortunately, I’m not allowed to quote anything from the manuscript verbatim due to copyright restrictions, but I’ll try my best to tell you what I can without getting into legal trouble (hopefully). Also, I only managed to get through the first 7 chapters before the library closed (I’m truly devastated) partly because I struggled a lot to decipher Golding’s very messy handwriting and also just because I’m not a very fast reader and I only had about 5 hours with the manuscript, so I’ll just be talking about what I’ve read so far. I plan on returning in the summer to see the rest so there will be a part 2 to this post eventually!

Also also, at the time of posting it is 3am and I am too tired to proofread this properly so apologies in advance for any mistakes.

Now, onto the part of the post you actually care about- talking about the manuscript!

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Okay so this is more of a little thought so scroll if you only care about lotf art ✨👍

OKAYOKAYOKAY I’m gonna probably post about the manuscript for lotf sometimes here and there! There’s about 5 versions of it from what I know! The five are: The manuscript (most likely 1935), the typed script (19??), 1954 (the book), 1963 movie, and the 1990’s movie

I’ll definitely post more about this 👁👁

Another doodle dump

i like how theres like 10 people in the lotf fandom and everyone knows each other hi lotf fandom

okay so little intro/get to know me thing since i’m gonna try to be active

I’m Jack or Merridew, I use that as my preferred name and Merridew as more of a nickname!

I use he/they pronouns and do take requests, so- I’m up to draw any lotf ship/character 👍