What Is The Loss Of Power In Lord Of The Flies

Power and rules can prevent people to move on their will, so chances of reveling are counted. Jack’s characteristics are savage, violence, evil, and etc. Ever since they were stranded to the Island Jack wants to be a leader, but other people choose Ralph over him. Even though that was the case, Jack is finding a way to overthrown Ralph “whoever want Ralph not to be chief?” (Golding 126). That election is for them to split their group. Almost all of the boys go with Jack’s to their new group. But, where did the power of the conch go? Big question, since the day they split “ He looked at the conch in Piggy’s hand” (Golding 128). So, Ralph group are still having the rule that whoever has it may have right to speak. However Jack’s group only follows …show more content…
This is important part how the conch has only fifty percentage of power, since they split, one still following it and the other totally make their own power. So, by this time the conch is losing its power. If we connect that to the people in reality, we can connect them through the terrorist. They are the people who are willing to kill and die in a fight for their belief. They can bomb and shoot innocent people because of the rules of their leader. Even though they still follow their leader’s rules, some of them do it for their personal interest. Power always needs to be handling correctly, if not imbalances will create bad result. So, William Golding uses the destroying power of the conch in his symbolic novel Lord of the Flies, to show the theme of absolute power corrupts integrity and to represent the