Peter Green Lord Of The Flies Totalitarianism Analysis

The British boys are products of the British schooling system and the social, cultural, economic and religious institutional network that bred colonizers some time ago. Their ideologies and value systems are being threatened by another league of inhuman imperialistic powers. According to Peter Green Lord of the Flies "reveals a terrifying microcosm of political totalitarianism" (28). Jack, the rebel, represents antidemocratic values. He represents the irrational element of chaos in human nature transformed into a totalitarian rebel leader. Golding, through Jack, doesn’t only satirize the power of ideology and dictatorship but analyses the very physical and metaphysical roots of totalitarian leadership and its consequences.

He didn't like "the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (33-34). But it becomes a necessity to hunt to satisfy not only his own hunger but of other boys also. He receives encouragement and he starts enjoying blood. He gets transformed into a killer who doesn't hesitate to kill other children. Jack becomes the evil incarnated. He succeeds in snatching away power from Ralph. Jack becomes an unsworn totalitarian king of the tribe and dominates all other

Golding's depiction of Jack is an implicit critique of totalitarianism. It makes the world blind and brutal. It pushes the human race in primitive barbarism based on instinct. Golding rejects the thesis that dictators can lead the world to civilization. Piggy represents “rational humanism” and his physical deficiency is a critique of humanism. Piggy’s specs and asthma reflect that he is tired and can’t see without specs. And breaking of his glasses symbolize the blindness of the human race and breaking of the conch symbolizes the failure of the democratic institution. Piggy and the conch with which he associates democratic values die