Lord Of The Flies Political Allegory

There are two kind of the leaders in the world, one for the greater good and one for the greater evil. In this book the author portrays the evil Adolf Hitler during WWII in Jack Merridew. He was shown as the outcast , the one no one wanted. He took over with force and became chief just like how adolf Hitler did. Both of the characters resemble the evil and greed that's going on in our world. They both preyed on the weak and took over when no one paid attention.
In Lord Of The Flies by William Golding it shows an political allegory of WWII characters in the book. The book shows a resemblance of major political figures such as FDR and Adolf Hitler. Jack Merridew was shown as the outcast and the reject of the book. He slowly took power with force and preyed on the weak. These characteristics were rooted from Adolf Hitler. He brainwashed and preyed on the weak just like how Jack fooled his hunters and convinced them that when they killed Simon and piggy it wasn't murder that they just died just the way Hitler convinced the german people that we should wipe out the entire jewish existence in Europe.
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book historical fiction book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding shows an political allegory of WWII and how each character resemble the major political figures then. The antagonist of the story , Jack Merridew shared many similarities with another dictator Adolf Hitler.
During World War II the one thing that made it as evil and scary is the leadership of Adolf Hitler. He did the most inhumane things to innocent lives and he took over Germany by deceiving and brainwashing the masses. There are a myriad of ways that show how Hitler manipulated everyone into taking complete power of them and the jewish. “His first target was a german speaking part of Czechoslovakia , called The Sutherland. Czechoslovakia did not have a strong enough military to fight off the German”(Hitler,Adolf Barbara Bigelow). This shows how Hitler preyed on the weak and taking over czechoslovakia would help germany in any way. It was to fuel his adrenaline for power. Everything Hitler proposed to do was only help him feel more powerful not help the german people like he promised to do. Another thing is that Hitler himself didn't do the cruel things he ordered to do. During his reign of terror he gathered up notoriously evil groups of people and started a group called the SS. Even though they did the action the idea created by the nazi party was what really killed them. Even authors like John Merriman said in his book the SS “In this sense the SS was the not the merely executor of the Nazi’s Party’s murderous plans, it was the quintessence of Nazism itself”. This backs up my theory on the death of the jewish mass.
Hitler also backlashed anyone who wasn’t giving him full support. The people who knew what he was planning was told that they were wrong. In the book Adolf Hitler by barbara bigelow she stated that “He said that his accusers were the traitor stating “ I feel myself the best of germans who wanted the best of the german people”. Anyone who said anything about him were the real traitors according to Hitler because of his narcissism and everything they all said proved to be accurate later on. There are a lot of ways how Jack is similar is to the notoriously evil and cruel dictator adolf Hitler. They both are dictators in their own forms but still share many similarities. In the book LOTF by william golding it states “With the brutal, animalistic murder of Simon, the last vestige of civilized order on the island is stripped away, and brutality and chaos take over. By this point, the boys in Jack’s camp are all but inhuman savages, and Ralph’s few remaining allies suffer dwindling spirits and consider joining Jack.” It shows how Jack preyed on the weak to show he has complete power over everyone. This is exactly like how Hitler preyed on the weaker countries that he only took over to show has the most power. Jack only killed Simon to make everyone fear him and his consequences if you do something against him. Hitler took over to show that you shouldn't mess around with him. They all easily gave up because they aren't strong enough to stand up by themselves. Another point is about how both of the dictators had someone do all the dirty work for them. Before becoming in charge Hitler gathered up people who would do anything for him and then branded his group the SS. In the book it states “That was Jack and his hunters” Although it's a short quote it shows how Jack use his authoritarian complex and had the hunters with for whenever and wherever. Thus the author very much implying that the character had things similar to the dictator. One last point that connects Hitler and Jack is how they both backlashed anyone who spoke against them. People who were against Hitler figured out his plans and Hitler immediately backlashed them and in return calling them the traitors to the nation of germany. Jack also said in the book “And you shut up! Who are you anyways” This showed anyone who tried to question Jack and his animalistic ways were wrong and told to shut up. When Jack killed Simon and piggy someone says isn't that murder and Jack immediately told the person to shut up and no it wasn't. Then identically to Hitler told this person that they were the traitors. This shows how similar they are and people who really saw Jack and Hitler for who they actually are were blamed but knowing its true. The author William Golding wrote the book for one purpose , to show the readers what happened during world war ii but in more simple ways so people can better understand.
Lord of the flies shows how each character had similar characteristics to key political figures during that time and one major topic was the similarity between Jack merridew and adolf Hitler. Overall Jack is just as deceiving , manipulative and cruel to other like adolf Hitler. He mainly preyed on the weak and made them his target to fuel his totalitarian complex. He also used others to do the work for him instead of him doing it because we all know that Jack being his bony self can't kill both Simon and piggy. Same goes with Hitler he was just as cowardly like him. They both backlashed everyone who caught them for who they really are. Both destroyed whoever and whatever in order for them to get
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The overall point of this paper is showing that we should carefully examine who we should give power to. People like Jack and Adolf should not be anywhere near it because we saw how bad things turned out when they forced everyone to give it to them. We should not use our power and influence over people for evil and murder the whole purpose for it is for to use it for good. Some people like Kim Jong Un which is a modern example on evil power. He uses it for bad and he doesn't help anyone out but himself. He only has power because like his family he fooled everyone into giving to him. Power should not erase our moral values like when Jack had Simon and piggy killed he thought it was perfectly okay and it wasn't murder when it really was. There are many examples of evils in the world and Jack Merridew and Adolf Hitler shared one of them. The evil of power made them into someone who can't tell right from wrong.