Corrupt Leaders In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

The leaders made everyone believe that they bad. Hitler made people believe Jews are bad and Abagail and a few other girls made the town believe the others are witches. This shows that people are willing to believe what others tell them so easily. That is why now there is a court and people that don't know each other are put as jury to listen and make there choice not our leaders.

When society decides that they would rather follow others, no more leaders are left to follow and society breaks down. When people follow, they lose beliefs, choose deception over honesty, and lose what they love the most. As someone begins to follow they start believing what they follow, instead of their own beliefs. Thinking that they have to be like another person forces people to lie about themselves. Losing someone or something they love the most doesn’t seem important to a person who allows other people to control them. People should not allow others to lead their lives when they could have their own.

jrpresnillo gave real-life situation. I am a leader (sort of - I was put in the position of the middle management), but most of my life I have been a follower, and even now I mostly follow. There are always some "bad apples" and I wander do we have to exclude them. It is hard to keep them "in the circle", they can really be destructive. But, at the same time, they are the strongest opposition you can get - they keep you alert and vigilant. There is good old cost-benefit ratio; in every individual case the leader is one that has to decide what is the best option for the team.

People will believe in the leaders that have good character. People want leaders that will follow through on the promises they make.

Slightly before World War II, Adolf Hitler rose to power by promising great things for the German people. He also had a quite public hatred of Jewish people, which was ignored because of the other things he promised. This is an example of people ‘blindly following’ a leader. It is a theme that is occasionally repeated in books. Greene Graham shows a group of kids following a leader who demands radical changes and alterations.

Thomas Hobbes believes that there is no better way to run an effective government than monarchy. You should have one leader that has firm leadership and maked decisions in the best interest of the people. He believes that people are naturally evil and that they should have a leader to make decisions for them. If people have say on what goes on then the result will be warlike. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a story about a deserted group of boys that result in using savagery and brutality when they didn’t have a strong government. Due to lack of a strong central figure among the boys it results in them making very rash and uncivilized choices, which would have not occurred if they used a monarchical type government. Thomas Hobbes believes that an effective government should have a strong leader that is not selfish and makes decisions in the best interest of the people because people are naturally selfish and evil you have to guide them. However since the boys fail to incorporate a monarchical type government they face the consequence of the deaths of Simon and Piggy.

Through out the book we see multiple leaders come to power and then fall for one reason or another. At the

Naturally, people do not respond well to others who boss them around. A person with an open mind who respect others could best achieve a task that involves a leader. In the contemporary novel, Cry, The Beloved Country, Alan Paton reveals that those who possess power over others should carefully treat their followers with consideration; otherwise, they will have no one who wishes to follow them. Anyone able to attain power can decide whether he uses his power for the benefit of his followers or in a selfish way. At times, corrupt leaders use fear as a tactic to control others in order to maintain their power.

What causes to corrupt leaders? To get things done, leaders use their immense amount of power. Not just that, but also can gain personally from the irrepressible power they have gained. In an article that Ronald E Riggio Ph.D. wrote, he stated, “a leader can use his or her power to benefit others, but can also gain personally (there are no poor former

One reason that people are more likely to follow a corrupt leader is that the leader seems more demanding than the followers. That is how it was in the book “Animal Farm”. The leader that everyone started to follow was Napoleon the pig. He was more demanding and was more corrupt than the others so he put himself in position to lead the group, you can call him an opportunist. Someone is going to have a better chance to be

plain, therefore, that when a tyrant grows naturally, he sprouts from a root of leadership and from nowhere else” (Bloom, 565d). When a leader gains the support or has the fear of his followers, they get a god-like sense and assume they fit the role of a “dominant” leader. Having a strong leadership trait is important in gaining support for your cause. A persuasive speaker may be able to convince people to do bad things, while actually convincing them that they are doing what is right. “The tyrannic man himself remains to be considered--how he is transformed out of the democratic man, and, once come into being, what sort of man he is and how he lives, wretchedly or blessedly” (Bloom, 571a). Plato acknowledges that a leader has a choice on how

Habakkuk will make an interesting observation regarding the way people follow rulers. In chapter 1:14, he says that God made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler. Habakkuk seems to be blaming God for making us social creatures that want to follow rulers. He

Many people will fall into the authority of an ungodly leader. Leaders that will exalt themselves to be as a God. Leaders that only agenda or at least their number one agenda is to promote themselves. In Daniel 3:1 - 7, Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold for the people to worship upon command or get thrown in the burning fiery furnace. We should respect all authority but not at the risk of blaspheming God or practicing idolatry. People will try to force rules and situations on you and if ignored they will cause you certain death in whatever arena you are dealing with them in.

Growing up a child is taught that it is important to obey elders or higher authority. Throughout history, there have been events where a person's obedience to someone has caused the death of many. Some examples of these events are the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and many other mass killings that have happened. The one thing all these genocides have in common is that a leader has dictated over many others and have brought their followers to do hateful actions. These leaders have used many concepts to captivate their followers. Racism plays an important role in blind obedience, but propaganda and the belief that all professionals are good are major factors too.

The leader pretends to need followers, and the followers pretend to need a leader. Naturally, the most dangerous leaders and followers are those who forget it's a game. This game used to be called "religion," now it is called "government."