RULE OF POWER IN WILLIAM GOLDING’S "LORD OF THE FLIES"

The rule of power is the concept around which William Golding’s Nobel Prize Winner novel Lord Flies turns. It literary masterpiece translated into more than 30 languages and hailed as one classics 20th century. tells story a group young boys who find themselves alone on deserted island, develop rules system organization, but without any adults to serve civilizing impulse. children eventually become violent brutal. In context novel, tale boys’ descent chaos suggests that human nature fundamentally savage. Accordingly, keep fighting choosing leader after another making their choices depend most powerful boy among them all rule. Golding himself, an allied officer fought in World War II, experienced destructive effect war first-person. After this devastation he witnessed, published his first Flies, symbolically expressed thoughts nature, power, constant conflict between good evil. aim article reveal fact according evil, man’s tends toward savagery methodology used includes basic criticism regarding versing evil philosophy well religion. hypothesis rests upon points out although beings might try act manner, yet they are often heartless evils. Thus, being always need social be tamed ready worship something/someone stronger himself/herself until he/she saved by “Messiah”.