Authority In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Since humans began to form societies, mankind has always chased authority and power. The same situation can be observed in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a novel which shows its audience that under circumstances where no authority figure is present it is human nature to develop like forms of societies that exist in the 21st century. The situation and course of events directly relate to the time period in which Golding wrote his masterpiece. In his novel, William Golding portrays the story of a group of British boys governing themselves, filling the roles and forming a primitive and savage form of the society today’s individual knows. Throughout the book, one can come across the ideas of humans with uniforms and weapons falling into corruption,