If you are asking what the nameless authority is, in my
opinion, I would assert that authority to be the Devil, evil, or the force that seems to
be infecting all the boys as it radiates itself from the "Lord of the Flies". We know
that this reference is also used for the Devil himself and I would assert that Golding
uses the term "nameless" to describe the authority because Roger has no recognition of
that which has taken over him in this last chapter. He has certainly been capable all of
the sudden of greater purposeful harm than has yet happened so far in the
novel.
Another perspective worth noting is the fact that
when people use fear to intimidate or assert power over each other it is often the most
terrible kind of authority that exercises no compassion or remorse for people who would
be under someone.
Remaining a nameless authority keeps the
ideas that the boys have no concept of the truths that they are destroying about
humanity. It is always easier that way.
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