Rites of Passage

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Rites of Passage is a Booker Prize–winning novel by William Golding that follows a young aristocrat’s morally fraught sea voyage to Australia in the early 19th century.

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instanceOf Booker Prize–winning work
novel
author William Golding NERFINISHED
award Booker Prize NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts sea voyage to a penal colony in Australia
explores coming-of-age of the protagonist
conflict between social classes aboard ship
moral corruption
followedBy Close Quarters NERFINISHED
Fire Down Below NERFINISHED
genre epistolary novel
historical novel
sea story
hasCharacter Captain Anderson NERFINISHED
Mr. Summers NERFINISHED
Reverend Colley NERFINISHED
hasForm journal entries
letters
hasLiteraryDevice irony
symbolism
unreliable narrator
language English
literaryMovement postwar British literature
mainCharacter Edmund Talbot NERFINISHED
narrativeForm first-person narrative
notableFor complex narrative voice
critique of British class system
psychological depth
partOf To the Ends of the Earth trilogy NERFINISHED
primarySetting ship voyage to Australia
protagonistSocialStatus young aristocrat
publisher Faber and Faber NERFINISHED
settingPeriod early 19th century
theme class distinctions
colonialism
moral responsibility
power and authority
religion and faith
rites of passage

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William Golding notableWork Rites of Passage