The Scorpion God

“The Scorpion God” is a stylized story from the life of the ancient Egyptians, which unfolds on the hot coast of the Nile in the 4th millennium BC. William Golding reconstructs the Egyptian kingdom with reliable accuracy. However, the main importance is not historical correspondence, but the parabolic ethical and philosophical subtext that appears in the text through the collision of naive traditional beliefs and seditious judgments that contradict each other. “The Scorpion God” is a parable that opens up unexpected perspectives on the nature of man and his interaction with the state.