How Does Golding Use Power In Lord Of The Flies

Lord Of The Flies by William Golding explores the idea of betrayal, savagery, and power through a story about British boys stranded on a deserted island during World War II. At first the group works together to create a good civilization and prioritize escaping the island but then there is conflict between two boys Ralph and Jack. At the end of the novel the civilization goes crazy and everyone forgets their humanity causing fights and deaths. Golding uses Lord of the Flies to raise questions about savagery, fear, and power. Ultimately Golding suggests that there's a balance between civilization vs savagery and order vs chaos

Golding uses words such as “ illusion” and “ignore” to explore the idea of how the civilization on the island has an

When they are describing Jack it makes the reader feel like he's not being human like, he's not ashamed of what he's doing or feels like he’s doing something inhuman. This also makes the reader feel like Jack's small tribe is slowly becoming more demoniac and evil to their own people. This detail also brings us back to Jack having this illusion of him hunting and having fun while doing it, this illusion also makes Jack forget the reality of who he really was back in the UK. In the passage Golding describes Jacks small tribe as “Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling” This sentence shows how the kids humanity is slowly drifting away from them their behavior is changing and their action like animals hunting all this show how Golding's idea about humanity in this kids are them being maniac and action like animals.When we first start seeing Jack become someone else we see in chapter 4 Jack killed his first pig and