Corrupt Leader In The Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Francis B. Sayre once stated, “Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.” People control society because people set the rules and inform others what is right and what is wrong in which the rest follow through their actions. On the other hand, one may believe society controls the people because they view society as the one who is in charge and supposes that society advises people what to do and how to do it. People assemble the choices of what is justifiable in society, therefore controlling how society is perceived., In Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a society is controlled by a select few: allowing the boys to develop their own society through their rules and decisions, and entitling their society to transform into savagery

The desire for power and not getting the desired power will often cause major conflicts. In the case of Jack, he will do anything to have the power he wants, even if that means lie about the current leader, Ralph. As Jack talks about Ralph he says, “He is not a proper chief… He is a coward himself. (page 176).” He goes on to say, “Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief ? (page

One reason that people will follow a corrupt leader is that the people will look for anyone else to leave them other than their current leader. “All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of the frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing a knife behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt” (114). Even though Jack was hurting one of his friends, they still wanted to follow him because he could protect them and Ralph could not. Jack was also the only other boy who could lead them. A second example of this is “Why do you hate

Man is born completely innocent but they get corrupted by the society that surrounds them. No one comes into the world evil but instead they get corrupted and change into a different person. Society molds people into who they are, for the better or the worse. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding it exemplifies how man is born innocent and gets corrupted by society.

“‘The rules!’ shouted Ralph. ‘You’re breaking the rules!’ ‘Who cares?’ Ralph summoned his wits: ‘Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!’” (91). In Lord of the Flies, Ralph says this to Jack at one of their assemblies, after having berated the boys for neglecting the shelter building and the signal fires. Ralph’s leadership is built on these rules, and Jack’s breaking of them causes an ideological conflict between them which eventually leads to Ralph’s loss of power among the group. He tries to create a just and orderly society to fulfill their needs and allow them to be rescued, but the boys eventually find Jack’s churlish lethargy and excess to be more desirable. Desirable, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, can be

Stories often crop up in the news about people following some crazy leader, usually concerning groups like cults, fanatics, or even fan bases that appear to blindly shadow and support their idol or superior. A casual observer will most likely look down on these groups, assuming that they could never be swayed like those people; but can one really resist so charismatic a leader? History has proven that the right person with a gift for persuasion can convince anyone to do something against their normal values. In Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, monomaniac Captain Ahab cajoles the crew of the Pequod into supporting his mission to through his incredible powers of persuasion. Obsessed with Moby Dick, a white sperm

Following someone or something has become natural at this point. We’ve taught to follow rules our whole life. A lot of rules don’t even make sense but we have the follow them because it’s the law. In our community we learn to be leaders and take care of the followers, or being a follower and following orders of a superior. I think people

The way that I see how dictators and tyrants led people in ancient times and modern times was that they either was force to accept them as their leader or actually accepted them. In ancient times, it was normal to have a leader because the leader is supposed to protect them from the other countries that they possibly ran from. Sometimes even if the people feared their leader, there was nothing they could have done about it since most were possibly poor. Some just accepted it even if they didn’t want to because it brought people to show up to their city to live and it gave merchants much more money than what there was before. The dictators and tyrants promised the people in both ancient and modern that they would protect them if they were to

Follow me’” (38). Jack is eager to seek for the power to dominate over the group even after Ralph is chosen to be the leader already. Jack doesn’t have any power to command others but his choir but Jack tries to replace Ralph’s duty at this point. Also his behavior of breaking rules that Ralph makes by speaking without the conch and calling people to follow him show that he is still trying to seek the power by ignoring the leader.

Power struggles are a literary theme that has spanned from the early biblical stories like David and Goliath to Beowulf and to more recently Golding's Lord of the Flies. However, instead of the power struggles happening between man and giant, or man and monster, Golding’s struggle is between boys and themselves. Throughout the novel characters Jack and Ralph vie for power over the collective. Each of them represents two distinctly different forms of governance as well as different ways of gaining power.

A leader has the power to control whatever they have leadership over. Though leaders usually exhibit responsibility, trustworthiness, and integrity, certain leaders take advantage of their power. Because of their authority, leaders can gain an ego, resulting in strong desire. To attempt to fulfill his or her desire, a leader may begin to make selfish and irrational decisions. Poor decisions result in adverse effects in all members of the group. In the 20th century dystopian novels Brave New World and Lord of the Flies, Aldous Huxley and William Golding utilize the development of corrupt leaders to show how desire, along with power, can result in poor leadership, which results in the loss of morality and fairness in decisions and policies, negatively affecting all people regardless of title.

In the first case it is easy to see why people would follow their shepherd, because they share a similar outlook for the future of a cause. They are all headed in a similar direction, and having a leader just helps them get to the end goal more efficiently. However on the other side of things, when groups are formed and then told what to do it leads to a more hostile position as people become passionate about being in power versus making real changes. Both form of rallying are seen in the story, “Inherit the Wind,” by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. They take form in the same relationships throughout the story as the characters grow and continue to learn more. However one of the biggest overlying things in the pre rallied troops fighting against one another simply because they can. On one side you have those who have been raised in Hillsberry and stand on the side of Matthew Harrison Brady, simply because he had good presidential views, although they had no relation to the case. Then on the other you have those who have traveled in from the cities who come to love Henry Drummond. As the two sides bicker they ignore the facts of the case as another relationship unfolds inside of it, the one between Henry Drummond and the others on the defenses side. These men had gone into the case all knowing what they wanted, and together created a powerful plan to get them to their goal. This second relationship is one that is less often seen between the followers and their leader. The passion involved in rallying troops and focusing on building up a group is simply enough for people to keep

In the stories “Charles” and “The Follower”, the authors prove that everyone is always either a leader or follower. Jack, the narrator from “The Follower”, had a pair of neighbors who were always doing crazy stunts. One day, after one of the boys was flung into Jack’s yard from a tree, Jack said to himself, “The first moment I saw him in pain, it occurred to me that I wanted to be in pain, too.” He does not necessarily want to be in pain, he just wants somebody else’s lead to follow. The narrator is one of the followers in this story, so wanting to act like other people is just his nature. Scary Gary, the older brother who flung the boy from the tree negatively uses his gift as a follower. There are people in real life who are natural-born

The leader and follower relationship is looked at as winners and losers, when it is actually a symbiotic association. (Chaleff) Leaders cannot exist without followers and followers cannot exist without a leader. Leaders can forget that they need the backing of a solid team of followers in order to succeed. Because they make the “important” decisions and enjoy an astronomical rate of pay, it is easy to overlook the loyal, hard working individuals that make everything happen under them. Followers too can forget that they are a valuable element of a successful organization, and that their feedback and ideas are welcome.

Another reason of why leaders become corrupt are because power licenses individuals to impose their will and commands without have properly engaged and processed through the reality at hand. It licenses them to be able to unreflectively, unilaterally do whatever they want with apathy. These individuals lose track of their rationality of what their limits are, and delude themselves into thinking that they have the right to rule above all others. This is when reality seeps through the cracks of their hands and gets washes away by their erroneous ego. These people begin committing atrocious acts as a way to exercise their power, and also just because they can do it. Adolf Hitler was