They Have Gone Mad With Power In Lord Of The Flies

Ever heard of the saying “they’ve gone mad with power”? Whenever a person has total power over a large group and convinces the group to do their bidding, the leader went mad with power. During World War II, Hitler had total control over a large group of people, the Nazis, he used his power as chancellor of Germany to establish concentration camps and had his men torture the jews of eastern europe. Similarly, in Lord of the flies by William Golding, the character jack is given control of a group of his own and he convinces his group to try and help him kill Ralph so that Jack can become leader of the whole island. Whenever leaders have power, they take advantage of this power and can convince their group to do their barbaric bidding. Power like this is how people set a personal goal, will make any sacrifice necessary to achieve their dream even if it means killing another human being.

When hitler became chancellor of germany in 1933, he had all the power in germany and he could make it the way that he wanted, which was jew free country. This is how Hitler was able to set up his concentration camps and how the jewish population of Eastern Europe would go down (timeline of holocaust). This allowed the jews to start dying off and hitler was able to start