Dictatorship In Lord Of The Flies

In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Goldberg the one main theme is the struggle of leadership. The writer writes about two opposite powers, ‘democracy’ with Ralph being the chief and there was ‘dictatorship’ controlled by Jack. With these two sides, multiple symbols are connected to each type of lifestyle differently with these two powers. These symbols helped both Jack and Ralph in their own ways. In the beginning of the book Piggy finds a shell on the beach and says it can be used as an instrument and asks Ralph to blow into it. Everyone from the crash hears the sound and slowly everybody arrives to the beach and they later on decide to hold a meeting that thoroughly discuss how to survive. After that they made a rule that whoever is

It helped both democratic and dictatorship political systems in their own ways. For the democratic side, it stood as a hope that one day a ship will pass and see a beacon of smoke from the fire. “The fire is the most important thing on the island. “How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep a fire going?”(Golding 80). One of the days that they were on the island and they saw a ship sailing by which reminded them of fire however sadly the fire wasn’t lit . Ralph finds out that Jack and all his hunters were killing pigs instead of keeping the fire going on the mountains . This obviously in turned angered Ralph that they weren’t doing their job properly and he threw a tantrum on Jack. However, Jack never cared about getting rescued as he looked at the fire with a different aspect. This lined up democracy versus dictatorship war where he started using fire as a weapon by igniting the whole forest just to kill Ralph. “They had smoked him out and set the island on fire.”(Golding 197) The forest fire got the attention of a navy boat and they inspected found a group of british boys starting a forest