Jack’s Chaotic Enthronement Victory in Lord of the Flies: Chaos Theory in Golding’s Novel

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In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, while a few British children are taken to safer lands from a destructive war zone, the plane carrying them crashes into a desert island.From then on, the children are all by themselves without any adult, and they have to survive through establishing their own set of rules.While doing so, they use the social constructions in which they have lived in their homeland.Initially, Ralph seems to successfully rule the island through democracy and peace, however, as time unfolds and their living conditions get harsher and harder, Jack and his allies dethrone him with animalistic force by their horrible and evil deeds, resulting in their reign.The former government fails and the latter one becomes victorious by destroying the already existing government on the island.However brutal their methods are, Jack's and his allies' success is well earned, because they have created a perfectly functioning orderly disorder.The article aims to discuss the reason why the dethronement is earned, and the reason for Jack's ultimate success in taking over the control of the island is demonstrated by utilizing chaos theory, which is officially discovered by American scientist Edward Lorenz.With the help of chaos theory, the reader is able to understand why Jack's chaotic government functions successfully for him and his allies.