If anyone is given a bit of power, they we are doomed. As the old saying about "All Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. In the two books that I chose to being "compared or linked" would be "The Lord Of the Flies" and the "Animal Farm." They both often share a same sense of allegorical connection to the rest of the world. Where as `The Lord Of the Flies' is an analogy to the human social behaviour view and `The Animal Farm' is an analogy of a human political view.

They both show changes in a society. Each of the initial changes is extreme; the animals take over the Farm and the boys are left stranded on an island, both situations that call for quick leadership...