Leadership In 'Lord Of The Flies' By William Golding

After Jack’s tribe gains power, and the boys embrace their inner savages, the value of the conch subsided. When Jack and his tribe apparted from Ralph’s group, they began to disobey all of Ralph’s rules that they set for the island, including the conch. Although Jack knew that Ralph was the leader of the island, he decided he could violate the conch’s purpose. Golding showed to his readers how Jack was ignorant of the value of the conch by having Jack say, “‘Conch! Conch!’ shouted Jack. ‘We don’t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things,’” (Golding 101-102). Ralph became furious at Jack for not obeying the power of the conch. Their groups now became segregated. Later, Ralph and Piggy were arguing against Jack’s tribe at the Castle Rock, and Ralph has witnessed something he wishes he never had to see. What he saw was the horrifying death of Piggy, who was holding the conch in his arms, which got demolished as well. When boys went full savage, they go forward and “the rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exit” (Golding 181). The conch shell was first an essential to the unity and value for the boys when they first arrived on this island. Now they have not only lost the conch, but Piggy as well.

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln. Once you give a man power, it all goes downhill from there. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there is one group of boys on an island. The boys elect one chief, Ralph, but another bigun thinks he’s a better chief. So the other boy, Jack, leaves and forms a new tribe with most of the boys. After a little bit of time, the groups begin to fight resulting in a couple of tragic deaths. Why would people follow a corrupt leader like Jack? They follow them because they feel like the new leader can help them better than the old one; they think that the leader or ruler can provide for them and it doesn’t matter who that leader is, they will follow them because there’s no one else to follow.

Over time there have been many leaders of countries, groups and societies that are believed to be the “best” or what someone could only dream of. However what if a perfect leader doesn’t exist? In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Ralph’s sense of leadership declines throughout the novel. So what if he doesn’t actually possess the skills the boys had hoped he for.

Piggy urges Ralph to use what power he has left by calling a meeting: “’What’s grown-ups going to say?’ cried Piggy again…The sound of mock hunting, hysterical laughter, and real terror came from the beach. ‘Blow the conch, Ralph...You got to be tough now. Make ‘em do what you want.’ Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem. ‘If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.’” In this situation, Piggy is still worried about the punishment of his previous life. He is the closest thing to an adult on the island, and Ralph is the only one who advocates listening to him, illustrating Ralph’s connection to the rules of traditional civilization, which the other boys despise and want to escape through the island. After showing blatant disregard to their “chief’s” rules, they decide to escape the constraints of Ralph’s assemblies and embrace their inner savagery with Jack. Piggy urges Ralph to blow the conch, the symbol of his power throughout the book, but Ralph understands that his form of leadership is becoming the less desirable option to the boys: if he calls an assembly and the other boys do not respond, its power, and his civilization, will have completely disintegrated. Ralph constantly emphasizes their responsibilities on the island—specifically, tending to the signal fire.

There are two types of leaders: those who are feared, and those who are loved. In order to decide which is superior, one first needs to understand what a “good” leader is, and is able to accomplish. Good leaders are able to maintain order, keep their position of power, and have the loyalty of his/her subjects. As clearly shown in Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince, and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, it is better to be feared as a leader than loved. This is proven in Lord of the Flies through Jack’s successful though chaotic rule, and Ralph’s unsuccessful experience as a leader.

Leadership is something that people values in the society. In a small group of people, the strongest person would seem ideal to be the leader, but that maybe not always the best choice. In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a bunch of British boys is stranded on an island and two boys by the name of Ralph and Jack are ideal contenders for the leader position. Although it looks like Jack is a better leader since he’s stronger, Ralph is better due to the fact that he understands the boys, he has better common sense, he tries to create a simple government to have order, and he has a better understanding of true human nature. As a result, intelligence and understanding could be more important than strength.

He finds it, is able to use it as a call to gather the boys on the island, and then uses it throughout his chieftain to be able to acquire power and listening of the boys. “Hands were reaching for the conch in light of the setting sun. He held on and leapt on the trunk… ‘You voted me as chief now you do what I say’ … Jack stood scowling in the gloom and held out his hands” (Golding 81). This evidence not only shows the use of the conch as Ralph being the chief, but also the start of tension and power struggle the conch creates between Ralph and Jack. In the end of the book, the conch becomes an attempted item of barter and Ralph tries to use his power against Jack. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (Golding 181). The breaking of the conch and Piggy’s death really pinpoints the exact moment of Ralph's lost hope of any kind of reconciling and or peace between him and Jack. It was the end of playing the “fair

When people are afraid they tend to turn to a higher, stronger, leader. William Golding wrote a novel called The Lord of the Flies. In the middle of a war, a group of schoolboys crash land on an island, there are two leaders. One leader wants more power than the other, which he eventually gets using, fear, manipulation,deception, and violence.

The first time the conch is mentioned is when Ralph says he had seen something lying in the weeds by the lagoon where he and Piggy were playing. He pointed it out to Piggy, who recognized it as an object of importance right away: " A conch he called it. He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It's ever so valuable-"(15). Ralph and Piggy were talking about the conch for a while until Ralph decided to blow it. After he blew the conch and all of the boys took a vote on chief it became evident, from the reactions of people that heard him, that whoever

In a period of history ravaged by war a plane of boys from England was mysteriously shot down and crashed upon a deserted island that sets the stage for William Goldings Lord of the Flies. The pilot of the plane, perhaps along with other children, does not survive the crash; meanwhile a group of boys luckily survive and discover they are deserted without adult supervision. The first two boys introduced within the novel are Ralph, who is athletic, handsome, and is demonstrative of leadership qualities, and Piggy, a pudgy asthmatic boy with glasses who possess a keen intelligence. Ralph finds a mystical conch shell and as he blows into it other boys emerge from various parts of the vast jungle. Among them is the antagonist Jack Merridew, an aggressive

Have ever you thought of a team being successful without following the rule or listen to the leader and the plan? In this story Lord of the Flies the author Golding William use his personal opinion to write the book he thinks that human was naturally savages in which I agree with it. Leadership is really important for a group like in the story to survive because if no one here to lead them they will start going by their own in which it happened during middle of the story He wants to show the importance of team work. If you were in this kind of situation what will you do of course is to survive right? But how you are going to survive if you are standing alone helpless without a team nor a leader? I going to explain a little bit who what the word leadership mean. Leadership is an ability of an individual to lead others peoples or an entire team. I do not believe that a successful team without a leader. Let me prove you how important is leadership.

The reason i think ralph is a better leader is because ralph is more determined to get home to his family, he will do anything in his power to help anyone. On the other hand jack only thinks about himself and his own problems.during this story ralph was always trying to find ways to make a single for rescue.this is evident when ralph builds a fire with the help of the of the other on the island. As the mission of building this fire is going on jack is in the forest trying to find this pig he's been looking for, he doesn’t understand that their main mission is to get home not this pig that only he's worried about. Ralph has shown me he's a good leader because he is constantly trying to build new items and structures to help the people stuck

I believe that the leader of any group of people should think positively because as a follower, you always look up to the leader. More importantly, followers look up to their leader for advice and guidance when things become unpromising. If the leader stays hopeful then so does the group. On the other hand, if the leader is pessimistic in bleak situations, then the group loses its self-confidence and optimism. Furthermore, in the following setting, Ralph had the group make a fire on the island so they could signal a ship. The reason he wants to signal a ship that is passing by is because he wants to alert that ship about their existence on the island where their plane had crashed on. However, that plan fails because the fire did not produce

Fighting for who is the real effective leader. Jack shows that he is more effective leader than Ralph in William Golding, Lord of the Flies. Even though Jack lacked many of the important and caring areas of a leader like Ralph had, he still showed the confidence and basics of being a effective leader, which Ralph did not show. Jack strongly shows that he is a very self centred character, has a defined purpose and was influential towards the boys, however Ralph was unable to show any of these important roles.

“I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail and the wrong people are out of jail, that the wrong people are in power and the wrong people are out of power”. These are timeless words from Howard Zinn, at the 1970 debate at John Hopkins University to describe the nature which power generally flows in a society. It suggests that in a society, the figure that can appeal to the immediate interests of the governed, is the leader. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies puts in play a demonstration of untarnished boys building the elements of a basic society. It prompts the reader to question who the true leader of the stranded boys on the island will be. Goulding presented the story generally with a cynical belief stating that within each individual, evil is always present unless compromised by civilization. Appropriate to the given premise, Jack is the boy that emerges victorious in appealing best to the stranded boys. The fear in the boys’s subconscious minds leads to their psychoanalytic turnover to the theme of savagery, and causes the abandonment of any order imposed on by civilization, succumbing to the evil within themselves,