into a trunk shows mankind, symbolised as a knife, viciously attacking nature, here seen as a tree. This relates to the industrial revolution a country must experience to develop. It also shows that mankind cares only for himself, and would destroy the rainforests for small profits.
             The other main characters are also used by Golding as mechanisms to make social comment. Ralph is shown within the novel to be a possible leader, and a rival to Jack. Jack views Ralph as a threat, and like many political parties he undermines him. Golding uses Ralph as a symbol of the aerian race by his characteristics, and co-alliance with the symbol of Hitler. It is important to notice that the novel has direct ties with World War Two, because even though much of the social comment can be related to any era, Golding wrote it about the Second World War.
             "the boy with fair hair... looking enviously at his white body"
             Golding uses authorial intrusion to reinforce some of his sub
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