Governing Power In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

A Bloody Trail to Governing Power In 2021, Afghanistan, located in the middle east, would collapse due to loss of governing power and lack of authorial attributes. Like the failed state of Afghanistan, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, portrays the attempted and failed union created by boys stranded on a deserted island. After their plane crashes on this isolated island, the boys try to construct a governing body to form a civilized and organized society. William Golding uses symbolism of the characters Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon, as well as the conch, to convey how without a stable government with strong authority, the union will collapse and chaos will erupt. Both Ralph and Jack are key characters in the novel with specific

Although Ralph was expressing his optimism about how the other people and how help could be looking for them, Piggy reintroduced his meritocracy and told him the cold truth based on fact and reality. As for Simon, Golding expresses him as a skinny, vivid little boy who represents the saintliness and common good. Through this characterization, Simon is symbolized as the goodness and balanced form of peace. When he is murdered by the boys, it represents the failure of moral good and the rise of saveness. "Surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea"(Golding 154) After Simon was murdered, the balance between both Ralph and Jack’s governments had fallen and chaos would break loose. The conch would be a key object in providing judicial power. Golding uses the conch to symbolize a ‘gavel’, a tool used in a courtroom to form order and structure an organization. Originally discovered by Piggy, Ralph administers the power. Near the end of the book, the conch is destroyed, in contrast to Piggy’s