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Social Hierarchy In Lord Of The Flies

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Blake describes how social hierarchy has always been in the world and that can affect our view in things.. The church officials thought the orphans would be happy serving the higher class since the church officials are servants of God and in their religion they refer to God as the most powerful being. They thought the orphans would be happy serving the higher class, and the orphans were meant to serve. Whispering words telling the orphans that if they do their duty, they would go to heaven and meet God too. The church officials thought they were better and had a better position than most people so they assumed that people should feel entitled to serve them. The speaker makes the church by saying the lines: “They clothed me in the clothes of

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