Within the allegorical novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding symbolically lays out the social prejudices and morés of intelligence, order, general kindness and brutality. The book continues to be relevant today. When choosing a leader, society focuses on how he/she looks and what he/she says. If someone says just what people want to hear and is rather good looking, it’s very likely that person will be chosen as leader. Piggy is representative of intelligence within society. He has more logical approaches to situations and considers the possible outcomes of actions, if they were to make the wrong move. He thinks a step ahead to make sure they’re prepared. Unfortunately, no one listens. Ralph, the fair and athletic one, is chosen over Piggy, the nonathletic one with glasses. This is clearly a case of the other boys making their decision based on …show more content…
Ralph represents order within society. He decides to use the conch as an object to hold meetings and attempt to maintain order. Ralph is athletic and organized. He makes most of the calls in terms of what to do next. Although Piggy is intelligent, Ralph’s looks surpass his intelligence when the group of boys voted for a leader. When the boys decided to build a fire, Ralph jumped into action and started up to the top of the mountain where they were starting the fire. All of the boys followed closely behind. Piggy tried to gather their attention again to plan it out and think more about how to go about it. As a result of the group not listening to Piggy, the fire got out of control and burned one side of the mountain and presumably, killed at least one of the little boys. If Ralph hadn’t been in such a hurry to start the signal fire, it’s likely that none of that would’ve happened. In terms of deciding based on looks, today’s society is actually similar. Everyone has some sort of bias against how a leader, or anyone for the matter, should