Political Allegory In William Golding's Lord of the Flies "… Lord of the Flies is an allegory on human society today, the novel's primary implication being that what we have come to call civilization is, at best, no more than skin-deep" (Stern, 169). Though the need for civilization is focused on in this novel, the significance of political order, shown allegorically, is consistently referenced to. "Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and …showed first 75 words of 854 total…

…showed last 75 words of 854 total…and the littluns. This political allegory focuses it's attention on democratic and authoritarian government systems. "Thus one critic sees the tale in social psychological terms and decides it 'shows how intelligence (Piggy) and common sense (Ralph) will always be overthrown in society by sadism (Roger) and the lure of totalitarianism (Jack)'…Seen in political terms it is a dramatization of 'the modern political nightmare' in which responsible democracy is destroyed by charismatic authoritarianism" (Tiger, 195).