Would you guys say that Goulding was attempting to draw some inspiration from beelzebub, one of the purported princes of hell?
The book can be described in the sense that all of the characters are living or feasting on a big pile of excrement (the island) and beelzebub is flying above watching them as they destroy one another.
It seems that as the story progresses there is an unnatural progression into chaos as if the island is tempting them into “sin.”
This has probably already been established. Just wanted to see what you guys thought.
by No-Construction539