What Does The Conch Symbolize Democracy

In the novel, The Lord of the Flies, the conch symbolizes democracy. At the beginning of the chapter two, Raph hesitantly calls a meeting, through the conch, he finds the power to be a leader. As he nervously looked around, “Ralph lifted the cream and pink shell to his knees and a sudden breeze scattered light over the platform...all at once he found that he could talk fluently and explain what he had to say” (Golding 31). As Ralph is picking up the conch, a disturbance is in the atmosphere, showing the shift in power. The conch gives ralph a voice and confidence. Where he was previously unsure of talking, he can now speak “fluently”, or smoothly and readily. He is able to discuss the next steps to building a civilization. In a democracy,