At times, the authority of a group of people becomes displaced due to discontent among the populace. When this vital authority is removed, another one must take its place in governing the body. George Orwell and William Golding both illustrate different outcomes of such a situation in their novels Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies respectively. In both stories, a stable government is replaced by a volatile, even hostile environment. These books share the same concept in that a new government can easily appear to be better than the former one, when in reality it could be much worse.
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