Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

In the morning Ralph tells me that there was actually a beast. I am still not sure if I believe it. Jack is becoming more hostile, wanting me to go see the beast itself. Jack said it would be a good thing if I went up the mountain and never came back. Ralph is beginning to lose hope and says the boys are beaten. We can't have a signal fire up at the mountain top because the beast will kill us. Ralph insults Jack and the hunters saying they are just boys with sticks. Jack leaves and calls a meeting using the conch. Ralph and I go to the assembly. Jack says that Ralph is a bad chief and that we should vote him out. Jack says that Ralph just likes to give orders and talk. We voted again and nobody raised there hand to vote Ralph out of chief.

Although Ralph is angry, his anger is overlooked because Jack and his hunters finally caught and killed a pig which causes the boys to into frenzy. One night a military plane flies over the island and a parachute drops out from sky. The two boys, Sam and Eric, are supposed to be watching the fire find the parachute and believe that it is a monster. Jack believes that Ralph is too much of a coward to be the leader and wants to kick him out of power but the boys refuse although later many of the boys to switch over to Jack’s side. Jack’s new tribe is much more violet which they show when the group kills a pig and puts the pig’s head on a stake.

Jack and Ralph climb up the mountain to find the beast, but don’t realize that the beast is actually a dead man

The effect of authority is reflected in the character of Ralph, through his struggle to maintain his power. After the hunters brag about killing their first pig, Ralph declares “there was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!” (74). The authority he wields over the boys is beginning to diminish through the boy’s refusal to follow his orders. Ralph makes it clear they must keep a fire burning in order to be rescued, yet the boys who are tasked with tending to it disobey their command. As Ralph’s power is pulled away from him, the majority of the boys turn to a leader who they believe will protect them. During Ralph’s flee from the savage camp, Sam and Eric warn Ralph that “they’re going to hunt you down

All of the crew and other adults on the plane died on impact. After everyone settles down, they decide to elect a chief. The chief they chose is a smart and brave boy named Ralph. Ralph and his friend Piggy, who is not athletic but is very smart, start telling everyone to collect different sources of food and resources around the island. Although Ralph tries to create order and responsibility, there are many who would rather swim, play, or hunt. Ralph’s rules start to be followed less and less. Two big reasons for that is because of Jack, one of the biggest antagonists throughout the book, and the so called beast. Jack organizes a group of hunters that start hunting and killing some of the other boys. They end up killing Piggy by crushing him with a rock and right when they are about to stab Ralph with a spear, they are rescued by some navy

This occurrence causes problems between Jack and them. Next, Jack and his hunters become much more savage. They first wear war paint on their faces and eventually start hunting fully naked. They also ritualistically act out a hunt on Robert and nearly beat him to death. Their most brutal hunt to date is when they kill the mother sow. Once they slow her down enough to take action, they stab her many times and ignore her screams and squeals as Jack slits her throat, guts her, and sticks her head on a staff as a sacrificial offer to the beast that they think exists. This situation proves the progression from happy to evil by all the savage acts that would not have happen before the plane crash.

Jack is the total opposite of Ralph. He represents savagery and the hunger for power. In a world where evil easily corrupts ones soul, it is Jack who eventually prevails and overthrows Ralph. Jack steadily progresses into becoming a full savage throughout the novel. “I thought I might kill,” (Golding, 51). Jacks first encounters with the pigs are developmental. Physically he is capable of hunting them down, but mentally he is still chained down by the shackles of civilized society. However eventually he lets go of his old ways and lets his primal instincts surface in order to hunt his prey. Jack also pines for Ralph’s position as chief. He tries to manipulate people into questioning Ralph’s orders and not listening to Ralph at all. “A fire! Make a fire! At once half the boys were on their feet. Jack clamored among them, the conch forgotten.” “Come on! Follow me!” Jack uses the children’s excitement to his advantage egging them on instead of telling them to listen to Ralph. He wants Ralph to have

"The Lord of the Files" is a British movie, widely popular through a novel written by William Golding.The movie summarizes the tale of children whose tragic plane crash washed them on a deserted island with little to no reasources.The movie progresses with the group of boys aging 10 to 12 fighting the odds to survive and thrive in the land with no adult supervison.Boys named Ralph and Jack are the main characters in the movie; they took authority over the survived boys to prevent them from panicking and creating choas.However, eventually, jack dominates the group claiming that he could protect the survivors from an unknown imaginary monster.Although everybody was reluctant at first, finally, they were forced to capitulate to jack as he offered

Some people may think otherwise and choose Jack to be their leader, because in the beginning of the book, Ralph showed little affection towards Piggy. Ralph made fun of his asthma, for example, “what’s your name?” “Ralph.” “I expect there’s a lot more of us scattered about. You haven’t seen any others, have you?” Ralph shook his head and increased his speed.

Jack begins to take control and make his own decisions with the hunters. The hunters stopped worrying about the fire on top of the mountain and are starting to play and not take anything seriously.  The boys are becoming less civilized with crazy thoughts because of Jack’s leadership. They begin to hunt for the imaginary beast that they believe roams the island. Jack kills a pig and puts its head on a spear as a warning to the beast. The boys see someone running across the beach at night and assume he is the beast and kill him without thinking.  This ended up being one of the boys, a guy named

My first point is that people often see a tall masculine man more suitable as a leader. If you can present yourself looking like a leader, there is a likely chance people will believe that you are a leader. As an example, Jack, from Lord of the Flies, believes that he should be the leader because he is taller, stronger, and is a hunter. Although, they did not choose him as the leader in the beginning, but throughout the movie, he proved that he could be a leader but not necessarily the best leader. To go off of that point, animals can be seen as the same way as choosing a leader. We know that animals already share ten attributes with us, and this could be one more that they share with us. Animals look for strength and power in each other, and

The Lord of the Flies in its entirety is about a body of british boys who are left to fend for themselves when their plane crashes on an island. While the boys are on the island, the rest of the world is at war. The boys treasure a conch shell at the beginning of the novel in which they use as a form of advantage to speak. They then vote Ralph as their primary chief. They all determine that there is a beast amongst them that Jack and his new found hunters attempt to hunt. Not only do they hunt the beast, but they hunt pigs as a supply of food. While the majority of the boys become increasingly savage, Ralph and his boys build shelters and keep the fire going. About halfway through the novel, the boys find a dead man with a parachute in which

After losing the place of leader to Ralph, he is placed as a hunter along with his choir. His violent nature and natural hunger for power leads him to sever ties with the original group and start a tribe of his own, putting himself as chief. Eventually, all the boys side with Jack, creating a chaotic disorderly cult in contrast to Ralph's civilized and fair group. The cult covers themselves with tribal paint, sacrifice boar heads to a nonexistent beast, and end up murdering two boys. Jack's group is a strong example of the inner barbaric darkness hidden in all humans that is unlocked only in times of mass hysteria. Only when fear runs rampant through a society and death is standing right around the corner will man reveal their true nature. They will murder, steal, and do absolutely anything it takes to survive, no matter what the

This tribe lures in recruits from the main group by providing fresh game in return to them. Its members quickly grew and began to paint their faces and participate in bizarre rituals to summon the beast. Returning to Ralph's tribe, Simon, wanders off on his own looking for peace. He comes across a severed pig head, left by Jack as an offering to the beast. Simon believes the pig head, now swarming with flies, as the "Lord of the Flies" and believes that it is speaking to him. The pig's head tells Simon that the boys themselves "created" the beast and claims that the real beast is within them all. While venturing alone, Simon also comes across a lifeless pilot hanging from a tree. He realizes that the pilot's parachute kept him hanging perceiving him as the "beast". Simon realized that this had been mistaken for the beast, and recognized that the "monster" is solely a human corpse. To continue on, Jack and his group decides that they should loot Piggy's glasses to start a fire on the island. They invade Ralph's camp, confiscate the glasses, and return to their base. Ralph, mostly abandoned by his supporters, journeys to Jack's camp to confront him and retrieve Piggy's

As Simon wanders back to a beautiful meadow that he had traveled to before, he finds that it has changed. Instead of the peaceful meadow that Simon had discovered previously, the bloody head of a sow impaled by Jack and his follows taints the meadow. They had done this as an offering to the beast, hoping that the beast would be satisfied with the sow’s head and would give up hunting for the