Lord Of The Flies Chapter Analysis

Moreover, the next few social aspects influenced in this novel are apparent racial tensions and social cues inside the social hierarchy of the village itself. There are clear indications of social hierarchy levels that cause the most tension within one race, the blacks born and living in the Caribbean. “The villagers were a low down nigger people who couldn’t bear to see one of their kind get along without feeling envy and hate” (Lamming 26). A clear dichotomy between the regular villagers and the overseers who are both the same race yet there is a “tense relationship between the overseer and the ordinary villager” (Lamming 26). These quotes suggest that the villagers see themselves as a separate group from the overseers in this novel which
Political views of nationality in the novel consist of the villagers celebrating the domination of England and regarding that country as the origin of their nationality. “Barbados or Little England was the oldest and purest of England’s children, and may it always be so” (Lamming 37). Such a submissive view of their country in relation to Britain shows a lack of independent political consciousness of the villagers. The children in Creighton village on Barbados celebrate the Queen’s birthday, May 24th at the school by decorating the school. “The school wore a uniform of flags: doors, windows, and partitions on all sides carried the colours of the school’s king” (Lamming 36). This shows that the villagers’ views of nationality and rule are based on an English-centered education with the school being the focus which is due to the impact of the previous British occupation of the Caribbean. Nevertheless, the villagers’ nationalistic view of Barbados as a part of England is not the only political aspect influenced by British colonialism because workers’ rights were affected as well. “If you couldn’t persuade certain people to be fair you were left with no alternative but to fight for what you wanted” (Lamming 196). The fight that is being discussed in this quote is the worker's fight to fair pay in Creighton Village. Men had begun to riot at this point in the novel and it was spreading through the village. Lamming uses this riot to foreshadow the collapse of the feudalistic system in this village, the lack of political consciousness for the Caribbean nationality and to show this effect of the hold Britain had on the Caribbean