The social hierarchy in Lord of the Flies is just like the hierarchy in the medieval times. They both have leaders ruling over specific groups. This is the order for who has the most power to who has the least in Lord of the Flies: Ralph, Jack, biguns, Piggy, and the littluns. For example, Ralph represents a king because he tells everyone what to do and everyone follows his orders. Jack was a noblemen because he wanted people to follow his rules and not get in his way. Ralph cared for everyone by assigning people positions. The big kids represented the lords, while the younger ones were the peasants. Piggy was believed to be an outsider by the biguns because of his lack of physical prowess. "There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor"(pg.65)
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