How Does Lord of the Flies reflect the Second World War

. This change also resembled the change Hitler made when he came into power. Jack, towards the end of " Lord of the Flies", is the leader of the boys. He, unlike Ralph, leads the boys with charisma rather than ideas. This was an effective way of leading a group of boys because they were so young and impressionable. When Ralph was leader the boys grew tired of hearing his new ideas and rules. This process was exactly the same one that Hitler used in Germany. Hitler was well known as being charismatic and he would easily compel people to do things for their country. Many people commented on Hitler's piercing blue eyes and Golding represents the equivalent feature in Jack through his ginger hair. Goldings description of Jack when he first appears in the book, with his ginger hair and black cape represents the devil.
             The characters of Maurice and especially of Roger reinforce the fact that Golding wanted to represent Jack as Hitler. They, in war are represented by Hitler's henchmen most notably were Goering, Himmler, Gobbles. In "Lord of the Flies", Jack, Maurice and Roger are bullies. On numerous occasions throughout the book we have evidence of this. For example, in Chapter four, Roger was throwing stones at a boy, finding it very amusing. The ultimate example of how much Golding tried to convey the evil of Hitler and how he was capable of murdering so many Jews, was when Piggy was hit by a rock and then fell to his death. Roger pushed this rock. Although Jack is never seen to physically perform a cruel act, he compels Maurice and Roger to do so. This is another similarity between Hitler and Jack.
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