Lord Of The Flies And Jfk Comparison Essay

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In today’s society the government is in more control than citizens may realize, who’s truly making all of the choices for the United States of America? The citizens say isn’t really as loud as they think. The novel Lord Of The Flies by William Golding and the film JFK directed by Oliver Stone are exceptional examples of how society is treated. In the novel it shows how the “biguns” treat the “littluns.” They make them seem unimportant, and worthless. The film shows how society is being lied to and mistreated. They both represent a symbol of superiority.
Lord Of The Flies shows high power in many way in the novel, it states ““There’s some littluns.” “They don’t count..” which is showing how they littluns (society) are insignificant. Also in
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In the film the assassination of John F. Kennedy they blame it one may named Lee Harvey Oswald. According the film it was impossible for him to have killed president John F. Kennedy and shot him three whole times from all the angles he supposedly did. Which is why the film is about higher power about the masses. At the end of the film the main character Jim Garrison and his workers go to trial on the death of John F. Kennedy and he argues how the government is lying to the citizens and since Lee Harvey Oswald was the framed victim. I believe that the government must of just thought “hmm welp we have a victim, oh well we might as well just close the case of his death now so we don 't have to dig deeper into the case.” because one it would cost more money, and it would cost more time for the government. This shows how the government is mistreating the society and how the film JFK is in comparison to the novel Lord Of The Flies. The superior power mishandles the society of the United States just like how the ¨bigguns¨ have wrongdoing towards the …show more content…
Both representing a symbol of superiority. Overall, they both show how the ¨bigguns¨ treat the ¨littluns¨ Also society should be careful of these attitudes and practices because negative attitudes results in negative situation for the people around them. Attitudes such as negative tempers resulting in bad situations. Practices such as being allowed to own a gun and having shooting ranges, It teaches people how shoot guns properly and how to aim correctly. It can be highly dangerous to others, because people may use it for the wrong purpose. Also littluns do matter because without them things would be completely different and the masses of society are not ignorant nor unimportant because i believe that Ignorance is bliss. So overall, both the novel and film are outstanding examples to how the government till this day treat the masses of

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