Jack Merridew's Leadership Style In Lord Of The Flies

Ralph and Jack disagree with hunting or being rescued being the main goal. Jack and Ralph have different point of views on hunting but hunting for pigs becomes the main topic on the island. Most of the boy’s do not care of getting rescued all they care about is surviving and eating meat. Jack and his hunters become obsessed with hunting that there is even a chant that is said when the

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

Jack insists that since Ralph had never hunted and provided meat for the boy’s he shouldn’t be chief; the other boy’s disagree, and, upset that he has not proven himself to the boys, says, "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you… I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" (144). Jack then walks off, and many of the boys follow him and leave Ralph behind; in doing this, Jack takes a good portion of Ralph’s tribe, as well as much of Ralph’s dignity as a chief. Later, Jack names himself chief of the other group of boys. He uses his power to make rules, all of which establish that Jack’s side of the island is different from Ralph’s; "We'll hunt. I'm going to be chief… I say this. We aren't going to bother about the beast… And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here. This is near the end of the island" (146). In his anger, Jack created a society based on what children want instead of what adults need, which Ralph had. Jack has made himself the opposite of Ralph out of

A good leader is one who knows how to lead with control and has strong leader characteristics. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, some readers support the fact that Jack was a better leader than Ralph, but others feel that Ralph was the better leader. Although many supporters feel that Ralph is the best leader, it is evident that Jack is the better leader because he can effortlessly control the group on the island.

Jack is only interested in power, he acts like a dictator and doesn’t follow the communities thoughts. Some actions that Jack takes that shows this are "I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” “The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain," said Jack, “So you shut up.” This shows how Jack acts like dictator because he doesn’t listen to what the people say. “He's not a hunter. He'd never have got us meat. He isn't a perfect and we don't know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk-.” This shows how Jack is power hungry and will basically do anything to get it, he is trying to make Ralph look like a bad chief in order for him to try to take the power away from him and get it for himself. “We’ll raid them and take fire. There must be four of you; Henry and you, Robert and Maurice. We'll put on paint and sneak up.” This shows how Jack uses his power to make his tribe members listen to his orders and steal the members of the other tribes. Jack is only interested in power and wants the power for his own

Jack still wants the others to believe the beast still exists in order to keep fear in the boys and have power over all the boys.Moreover, due to the beast Jack is in power and the boys turn into savages.The boys on the island believe in Jacks rituals and look for some “protection” from Jack.Jack performs rituals and dances to influence the boys into believing he is keeping the boys safe.The boys believe Jack since none of the boys have been killed or harmed ever since Jack began to protect them.Jack wants to be the leader since the beginning. In the beginning, when boys chose Ralph based on his looks, Jack is not pleased.Therefore, Jack is able to scare the boys with the beast and keep control over the boys.Moreover, Jack believes in savagery

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew is seen as a character that wants to be leader and have power over everyone. His presence seems to terrify all the boys on the island, and uses this to his advantage to control the boys and manipulate them. As evil as he already seems, Jack is known to be the character to experience the most change out of anyone involving the change from civilization to savagery. He begins as an arrogant choirboy, who is actually seen cry when Ralph is elected leader of the island instead of him. Jack's original feelings were to keep an organized group on the island, and also mentions that he is not a savage, and that he will always do the right things. When Ralph brings everyone in the group together, Jack says, "I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right

Even though Jack demonstrated his leadership qualities when proposing a rescue plan to the ‘tribe’, and by accepting Ralph’s election to lead the group, something he wanted for himself, he eventually turns into a savage through killing a pig. This incident gives him a sense of power realizing that he can act with impunity without consequences. Wanting to hunt and kill pigs turned into a priority, eliminating the need to be

(Golding 33). Being stranded on the island has majorly changed Jack, he is praised for killing pigs because of it supply of meat. The amount of praise and the feeling of victory after a kill has caused Jack to go mad. The society within the island has corrupted Jack and many of his hunters because they are praised so greatly for killing a pig that they have now adapted this hunting as an evil game, the hunts are no longer for food but instead for self pride, and praise, and power.

A dictator is a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. One of the most popular cases of dictatorship was Adolf Hitler, a German politician, who eventually gained control of multiple countries. In the text, Lord of The Flies, one of the main characters, Jack, is a horrific, cruel little boy who shows traits to that of Hitler. Many comparisons of the two can be made in the book, such as how they gained their power of their groups, why and how they have such power, and their mission, once their group had assembled.

Jack Merridew is a character in Lord of the Flies who always fights against Ralph about who should be in charge. Jack is described as a tall, thin, ugly boy with light blue eyes that seem to turn angry at any moment. When Ralph first sees Jack, he also notices a group of choir boys behind him. Jack is the leader of the choir, and enjoys being in control. If he is not in control, he relentlessly tries to become the figure in power. Jack discredits the power of the conch and lies about Ralph so the children will not want him as leader. “‘The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,’” (Golding 42). When Jack is embarrassed, he becomes violent. When Piggy embarrasses Jack about the signal fire, Jack becomes upset and “… stuck his fist into Piggy’s

At first none of the boys were savages, including Jack. Jack agreed with Ralph that they had to have rules and obey them. When the boys were assigned jobs, Jack wanted to hunter. When Jack saw the first pig on the island he chased it and was going to kill it with his knife, but he couldn't kill it and the pig got away. As time went on the boys started to make several errors. Jack started to hunt more and more and he got more hunters. Some of the boys got distracted from their task, like keeping the fire burning and making smoke. One day, a boat passed by the island, but the fire died and there was no smoke to alert the boat.

In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are evacuated to an island. One of the boys, Jack, has immeasurable leadership skills and becomes more savage as time goes on. When Jack arrives on the beach for the first time, he brags that he was “head boy”(22) when he is still trying to run the island with an organized set of rules. Also, the first time Jack tries to kill a pig, he hesitates because of the “enormity”(31) of killing a living thing. Yet not too much later, Jack is in the woods being more a “furtive thing”(49) instead of something usually found in society, like a hunter. Jack has taken on a leadership role by trying to provide for the group but has become almost feral in this moment. Furthermore, Jack laughs but

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, there is a boy who shows the dark side of human nature. Jack Merridew represents this underlying evil that dwells in every heart, which ultimately results in the downfall of mankind. He enters the island as “chapter chorister” (Golding 22), but his prideful exterior of “simple arrogance” (Golding 22) combined with a desire for power leaves him chanting “spill her blood” (Golding 75). He experiences some humanity without the “black bar of charcoal” (Golding 63) liberating him from “shame and self-consciousness” (Golding 64) when he can’t kill the pig and weakness when he admits he feels as though he is “being hunted” (Golding 53). But, when he is no longer being praised highly, he turns into an unreachable

Once these boys join Jack’s tribe, they are forced to follow his orders, committing heinous atrocities against their former friends in a desperate attempt to avoid the physical punishment Jack inflicts on those who disobey him. Jack rules his subjects through fear and intimidation, and yet lures them in by playing on hidden desires unbeknownst to them. Jack is often shown acting cruel and menacing towards the other boys, however is he also shown as being self-conscious and a bit insecure: “Boys are desperate to distract from their own helplessness and do so by projecting their fear of subjection onto an even weaker