In the novels "1984" by George Orwell and the "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, the ruling parties experience virtually
no consequences from the populous for their actions. In "1984" this is done by design, but in the "Lord of the Flies" it comes about through natural human impulses. The paper explains how in both cases, however, the competing human drives for order and for random gratification come to rest upon forms of social organization that satisfy certain basic desires of
mankind while sacrificing power to a small group of individuals.