Lord Of The Flies Ralph Analysis

To continue, Golding presents a democracy through Ralph by how he was elected as chief, his way of ruling and his priorities. Firstly, Ralph was elected as chief through a vote to see who should be chief. This is extremely important because the main basis of democracy is that the leaders are voted into their position, similar to how Ralph was voted into his position as chief. Ralph was merely picked because of his charisma, and his leadership qualities, similarly to real life democratic elections (assuming there is no corruption). Furthermore, everyone who had wanted to be chief had the chance to be elected, as seen in page 18. This goes to show that Ralph was elected in as chief in a democratic way, and thus is an embodiment of politicians elected through voting. Secondly, Ralph 's way of ruling …show more content…
Furthermore, in chapter 9, the method of Simon 's death was extremely brutal, and shows the barbaric ways of Jack 's ruling. Since Jack is the embodiment of totalitarianism, this shows that Golding felt totalitarianism was a more primitive system in comparison to democracy. To conclude, that 's how Golding exhibited his preference of democracy over totalitarianism in the novel. In conclusion, politics affects the daily lives of the people. In many cases, people have different opinions on what political system is ideal. While there is no perfect political system, democracy is the currently the preferred system. Lord of the Flies by William Golding serves as an excellent political allegory, which expresses the differences between democracy and totalitarianism. This is expressed within the novel through Jack 's totalitarian ruling style and Ralph 's democratic ruling style. Golding also displayed he preferred a democratic system over a totalitarian system through the