Leadership In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

One time when I was playing soccer in my yard, I wondered how far I could kick the ball, so I kicked it but if flew off and landed on the roof. I couldn’t reach it, it was just too far. I had lost my soccer ball on top of my roof, my only soccer ball. So my brother put my other brother on his shoulders, then I got on his shoulders and they lifted me up and I got my soccer ball back. In the story Lord of the flies by William golding, it is a story about a group of kids that crash landed on a tropical island where they had to survive, but they couldn’t work together. People ended up forming different alliances to take control of the island, and some died in the process. But in the end, they were rescued by a naval officer. One of the main characters Piggy, died within the book, but that wouldn’t have happened if they just worked together, that is why a theme for the book lord of the flies would be, teamwork makes the dream work.

“‘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

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.

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.

The conch is blown, and the boys unite. They elect a leader and they choose Ralph to be chief. When Jack isn’t elected, he becomes jealous and envies Ralph. This jealousy and envy turns to hatred and resentment. These strong feelings towards Ralph are the main reasons that cause the evil that occurs in this book. Ralph’s leadership style is very democratic, where everyone has a say and there are assemblies. The point of these assemblies are to avoid conflict and get everyone's opinion. The assemblies symbolize order. When the Ralph first becomes chief, his methods of governing seem effective. However, as the book progresses, Ralph loses power and he seems weak to everyone. He tries to prevent violence, but as his power decreases, the level of violence increases greatly. Ralph is no longer effective at managing the boys. No important

In William Golding’s Lord of The Flies, a group of boys resemble figures and demonstrate that there is evil in all mankind. He shows in the character Ralph’s leadership abilities that it is not always easy to make everyone equal in a group. This is portrayed by Ralph’s inability to protect Piggy from the bullying and harassment from the other boys and his struggle between a civilized and savage way of living after the brutal killing of a pig. Ralph is a character to represent the struggle between good and evil.

The character Ralph also has the qualities of a leader compared to everyone else that helps him stay away from the evil. The conch gives him the role of the leader in the novel. “But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.” The conch symbolizes the power that Ralph’s character has, and the power helps him not fall into the path of Jack, where the evil corrupts him because he seeks power. Ralph’s leadership quality also help him order the other kids around. "All this I meant to say. Now I've said it. You voted me for chief. Now you do what I say."

Are you concerned of the lack of responsibility from Congress? Are you concerned about the individuals facing harsh persecution in North Korea? Similar concerns are elaborated through the novel Lord of the Flies, where a dictatorship encourages mass punishment of society, and where the lack of responsibility of a government leads society into disarray. In this political allegory, Ralph crash-lands on a deserted island and quarrel amongst a group of choirboys. Shortly after, Ralph becomes the “chief” of the island, creating a democracy to maintain complete order throughout the island. Through his desire for having omnipotent power, Jack turns into a strict dictator by abusing the weak and punishing his opponents, ultimately trying to assassinate Ralph. Throughout the novel, Golding uses the leadership styles of Ralph, Jack, and Roger to illustrate the focus of democracy, dictatorship, and an all-out anarchy, therefore presenting the failure of governments as a whole

Spirit of evil will silently spread under lawlessness, which leads to doleful tragedy, despite there is no clear judgment about whether human’s nature would be recognized as good or evil. In Golding's book The Lord of the Flies, he creates an intricate but enlightened story of a group of boys and that reveals about the topic of wildness and leadership. Ralph, Jack and Piggy are three significantly distinct characters and each of them represents a certain quality behind. In such a chaos, those boys instinctively tend to choose the responsible leader Ralph among the group to chase for the chance to be rescued. But throughout the book, we can see how Ralph gradually loses his prestige and how Jack’s violence takes place in their minds. Piggy instead, represents the civility and remains of conscience, but his consequence is leaded by his annoying actions and brutality. In reality, people would be inclined to different leaders according to the situation, but everyone would be overwhelmed by the desire to control and eventually lose themselves. We should not be controlled by the natural desire and become savages, instead, we should remain the basic order and pursue civilization.

When the modern era’s media outputs are bombarded with morbid images of the world's current state on television, the mass shootings, nuclear war threats, and numerous amounts of injustices, society cannot help but think evil is ubiquitous. People in society often forget evil is not a mystical force but rather a factor that is located in every human. The novel, Lord of the Flies, written in 1954, deals with the dark underlying themes of human evil, violence, and the loss of innocence. The grim ending of the novel calls upon its readers to understand the recurring theme of the inert evil that lies within all humanity when societal rules are forgotten. William Golding uses the three primary characters to symbolize the negative aspects of human nature through Ralph, Jack, and piggy's experiences in Lord of the Flies.

William Golding, the English author of the classic Nobel Prize winning novel for Literature the “Lord of the Flies”, demonstrates the different types of leaders throughout the novel. Some unique types of characters and their way of making a significant difference of the scenario for each other without having the title of “Leader” or in the story, as they call “Chief”. Some main characters in the story are very much the opposite as they are in when they talk throughout the story. For example Piggy, the smartest one in the group of the boys, is shy, soft, not that strong compared to the other boys, but mentally you can compare him to Mike Tyson, or Muhammad Ali, he is really smart. The only factor that is pulling him away from having the crown has chief is that he is self-spoken, and soft. In other words he would have been a great leader. Ralph the boy who blew the conch that brought all the boys together and got voted as chief, was a good chief throughout the story. But sometimes Ralph could be a bit harsh sometimes. To add on he can get carried away sometimes.

What makes an effective and powerful leader? Many believe it is the support of their followers, others say it is the ability to influence others, some even say it is just their ability to overpower and oppress their competition. Throughout William Golding’s Lord of the Flies it is shown that Deception and smooth talking are essential qualities to a powerful leader because these abilities are important to remain or climb to power. This is shown when Jack tries to crawl to power, when Ralph tries to reassure the boys, and when the boys try to justify Simon's murder.

Ralph stands for leadership and civilization throughout the story from the beginning until the rescue. In this case, civilization was depicted when Ralph began to organize the group. Of course when Jack and his group of choir boys came on the scene, they had to choose a leader . Ralph believed in rules, therefore, he felt that rules were the only means of staying civilized. So by blowing a conch, he called assemblies and suggested shelters and told Piggy to take down names. Also, Ralph led Jack and Simon on an expedition to see if they were actually on an island which would determine how quickly they would be rescued. There was a unanimous vote for Ralph to be chief. The boys all shouted “Ralph! Ralph!” “ Let him be chief with the trumpet thing” (Golding) . Ralph also showed leadership qualities by making sure that they built a signal fire at the highest point on the island and made sure that the group

Savagery and leadership are two themes prevalent in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Ralph, Piggy, and Jack are three of the older boys among a group that are stranded on an island. They have to work together to survive, take care of the littluns, and try to be rescued. Each boy has different strengths and flaws that are obvious throughout the novel. Their intelligence and actions affect their lives and likelihood to survive. Ralph, Piggy, and Jack are three biguns struggling for leadership without adults, rules, or boundaries.

There are many reasons why Ralph represents responsible leadership through orderly rule. For example, when talking about Ralph the author says that; “You can see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil” (Golding 10).  Ralph is portrayed by Golding as a person who is physically attractive and has a natural sense of leadership and authority. He has a very calm personality and friendly which invites the other boys to put their trust into him. In addition, when Ralph holds a meeting with the group he says that; “‘I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking’” (Golding 36). When the boys are having a meeting, Ralph starts to enforce rules about how people can only talk if they have the conch. When Ralph makes these rules, he is enforcing his role as the leader. He wins the boys with respect and confidence in his leadership abilities. Furthermore, when Ralph is talking to Jack, he says that; “they talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others’” (Golding 56). Ralph is talking with