Henningfeld Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

Furthermore, many critics will argue that there is a different hidden narrative at work in Golding’s novel. The hidden narrative would not be a commentary on humanity; rather, it would be on a completely different topic. Diane Andrews Henningfeld is one of those many critics and she argues that:

“While it is possible to read Lord of the Flies as allegory, the work is so complex that it can be read as allegorizing the political state of the world in the postwar period; as a Freudian psychological understanding of human kind; or as the Christian understanding of the fall of humankind, among others. As a political allegory, each character in Lord of the Flies represents some abstract idea of government. Ralph, for example, stands for the goodhearted but not entirely effective leader of a democratic state, a ruler who wants

Henningfeld sees the children as a metaphor for the different qualities that appear in all types of government. She views Ralph as representation of a finely-tuned leader who is filled the best intentions for his people with Piggy ruling by his side as the source of good ideas. Furthermore, Jack would be a representation of a tyrant, a strong man like President Donald Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte. Roger would then be Jack’s abiding minion who takes pleasure in seeing his leader succeed as he do what is necessary to keep him in power. Certainly, Henningfeld could argue that the Lord of the Flies is a political commentary, but she also mentioned that the story can take different forms of an allegory, leaving it to an open interpretation. Indeed this open interpretation leads many critics to form their own opinion of the deep meaning of the novel. Patrick Reilly is another critic that sees a different allegory in motion. Reilly argues that: “The allegorical insistence throughout the book that men prefer passion