Question

Many critics have read Lord of the Flies as a political allegory (a symbolic story). In particular, they have considered the novel a commentary on the essential opposition between totalitarianism (dictatorship) and liberal democracy (voting). Using two or three concrete examples from the novel, show how the two political ideologies are figured in the novel, and then discuss which of the two you think Golding seems to favor. *

Answer 1

In the novel, Golding favored the liberal democracy rather than the totalitarianism whose purpose was to increase the welfare of the whole community.

Step-by-step explanation:

Totalitarianism is a political framework or a type of government that denies resistance groups, limits singular restriction to the state and its cases, and activities an incredibly high level of power over open and private life. It is viewed as the most outrageous and finish type of totalitarianism.

Liberal democratic government is a liberal political belief system and a type of government in which agent majority rules system works under the standards of traditional liberalism.