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Works :: THE PYRAMID
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 This novel is often characterized as an account of typical adolescent and youthful indiscretions, turbulence and an awakening sense of individuality. It has elements of autobiography, but Golding's aims are more complex. The limitations of his first-person narrator, Oliver, are used ironically to point up the cruelties and tragedies of life, which Oliver himself remains unable or unwilling to see - even as an adult. The novel uses music, both thematically in the story and in the formal structure of the novel. Comedy and pathos are present at the same time; those who attempt to teach Oliver self-knowledge often do so at the cost of their own self-respect or even sanity.
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