'Lord Of The Flies' By William Golding: Chapter Analysis

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The final suggestion Golding proffers is that mankind’s essential illness lies in the political side of humanity, specifically our need for power. When the rock Roger rolled hit Piggy holding the conch, the conch “exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (181). The conch, a central piece of Ralph’s rule over the majority of the book, was a symbol for a civilized society run by a democratic government. However, once it is destroyed, it seems to indicate that democracy has finally shattered and all that power Ralph once had transfers to Jack as the sole totalitarian ruler of the island, over the boys. Even though the destruction of the conch was implied, Golding goes as far as to repeat that implication with the phrase “ceased to exist”, seeming to indicate that the democratic rule now and a civilized mindset ceases to exist on the island because the events shows that the boys have finally reached the lowest level of savagery. After this, Jack’s rule takes the form of dictatorship as if he has won the struggle for power against the democracy Ralph symbolized. …show more content…
The use of language seems to indicate that Ralph was civilized and perfect, the perfect and ideal vision of society. Ralph, who represents a democracy, seems to be what people of the western civilized worlds who has a democracy running their country sees it, the perfect government system. In a way much like a democracy, Ralph acts in a very idealistic way we see the democracy, a perfect government who runs under a few people, Ralph, Piggy, Jack, and Simon, instead of a sole ruler much like Jack does near the end of the book. This is very similar to how the mind works in a psychological point of
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