Who was the better leader in Lord of the Flies? What does being a good leader really mean? In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding puts two boys in a leadership position where they are faced with the needs of the other boys and themselves. On their way to a safer location, boys from a boarding school get in a place crash and stuck on an abandoned island with limited resources. While here, many of the boys resorted to savagery while the others focused on being rescued. Jack led the group that resorted to savagery while Ralph led the group whose main priority was getting rescued. Throughout Lord of the Flies, both Ralph and Jack took on a leadership role over the boys and often disagreed amongst each other on who should be the ultimate leader, having conflicting personalities; however, Jack acted like he was superior to the others which would make Ralph the better leader because Ralph stayed loyal to the boys and had a rescue plan in order to get all of the boys off of the island. To begin with, Jack acted superior to the boys, often was selfish towards the decisions he made. Ralph and Piggy headed to Jack’s part of the island to talk to him about getting Piggy’s specs back because they needed them to get the signal fire going again. Jack and his crew of boys attacked them both for Piggy’s specs the night before. Jack approached them when they arrived to his side of the island. He then forced the boys to tie both Ralph and Piggy up. “the tribe stood round them, Jack
A true leader is a person who takes initiative and does what is needed to lead a group of people. If they need to, they will make any sacrifices, take the ability to take control and charge of a group. Ralph displays initiative and leadership in the book, “Lord of the Flies”, by William Golding, by leading the innocent group of kids to survival.
In society, there are often people who acquire strong leadership qualities and understand what it means to be a favorable leader. Other times, there are people who have strong qualities to lead, but they do not understand how to be a favorable leader and create a safe and comfortable environment for those following them. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the characters of Ralph and Jack arise as two different leaders who bear strong characteristics and they both seek power on the island. The boys become leaders in their own ways, creating individual environments that prioritize different matters, all while trying to work towards their rescue off the island.
Many people consider themselves a good leader, but that is not always the case. In the book, Lord of the Flies, there are two types of “leaders”. Throughout the story, there is a clash between the two types of leaders. Ralph, the original leader, is overthrown by Jack, a savage tyrant. If Ralph was a better leader, Jack may not have taken over.Some traits of a good leader that Ralph lacks are optimism, confidence, and awareness. Ralph would have been a better leader by keeping the boys busy and focused, being open to new ideas, and enforcing his rules.
On the island in the famous novel, Lord of the Flies, the boys only had two options; become a leader, or become a follower. The two leadership figures, Ralph and Jack, both had two different views on how things should be ran around the island. Jack wanted to rule with an iron fist and Ralph wanted to work together as a unit to get rescued. In the novel, Ralph’s impact on the island were influenced by his natural leadership skills which helped him survive and lead the other boys. First and foremost, throughout the text, Ralph is always described as a well rounded, role model for the other survivors.
The lord of the flies by William Golding demonstrates how under strenuous circumstances someone's inner animosity can be unleashed. The story revolves around a group of schoolboys stranded on an island ages 5-12. Eventually, they lose their grasp on civility, inciting violence, tribalism, and chaos. Jack one of the older survivors becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Ralph and Piggy for control of the group. The discourse within the group led to them fracturing into separate cliques.
In groups of people, there are always ones with better leadership qualities than the rest. The stronger power becomes the greater authority, and the others abide by them. Nevertheless, the strongest leader isn’t always the best. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Ralph isn’t the strongest person, yet he displays a better understanding of people, which allows Ralph to lead the boys better than Jack could. Although Jack and Ralph differentiate in their views, they both share the same passion, to earn the role of chief.
When structure fails, a select few are meant to rebuild it. These boys are Piggy, Ralph and Simon characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The story follows their journey as they try and maintain order as insanity sets in due to their plane crashing on the island. The three boys try to help the rest by suggesting sensible and constructive ways in which to survive. Golding uses the three boys to show that Government can stand when there are no traditional leaders to support it, as they maintain their focus on the entire group instead of themselves.
Jack’s main goal wasn’t to get the boys rescued, it was to get the boys fed. All Jack wanted to boys to do was hunt. The group finally decided to put Jack in charge of hunting, since he had a strong opinion about it. Jack also felt that their should be no rules set on the island. Without rules, Jack wanted to have all the power and control over the boys. When Jack wasn’t voted leader, he became more and more vicious throughout the book toward the other boys. Jack wanted to feel like he had authority and control, and when he didn’t he ended up being very mean to the
Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding is able to touch on the many aspects of our civilization through the various characters he creates. Leadership plays a very important role in the novel as it does in real life because the characters need to feel some sense of security in order for them to survive. The two main leaders in the story, through their similar and different leadership characteristics and objectives fight back and forth to gain the discipline of the other boys on the island and generally the power to make the decisions that they feel should be made. Both leaders, Jack and Ralph, experience leading the group in their own style, which is similar in their desire for control yet different
“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes” (Peter Drucker). In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a decent sized group of boys are marooned on an island. This island starts as somewhat of an oasis, containing everything that the boys need to survive and thrive, except for one thing: a leader. One of the older boys would need to step up, and it comes down to Ralph, a boy around the age of twelve who finds the conch, which is used as a beacon for civilization, and Jack, a boy of Ralph’s age, but is also the leader of a group of choir boys, who advocate for Jack from the beginning. The decision comes down to a vote, and Ralph is chosen with all the
Jack illustrates evil and violence, and is in the hellish side of human nature. A choir leader and head guy and his school, he came on the island having some experience in success, and taking control over others by bossing around the choir with his aggressive attitude. He is always excited to make up his own rules and to punish the boys who break them, but however he constantly breaks the himself when he needs to further his own interests. He also seems to thinks that he has some nerve, even though that he has no idea what he is talking about. “ Ralph is like Piggy.” “He says things like Piggy.” “He isn’t a proper chief.” (50) To Jack intelligence is weak unlike strength, and to him it is not necessary for being chief. Ralph uses inspiring words of reasoning like Piggy does, and according to Jack, Ralph isn’t fit to be the boys leader but Jack is wrong. Jack’s only main interests are hunting, punishing, a strong sickness that starts with the desire for meat, and builds up to the uncontrollable need to master and kill other living things. His hunting has developed savagery that has already made him into a bloodthirsty carnivore, as he prowls through the jungle, just like how Jack and his tribe were killing the pig. “Kill the pig, cut his throat, spill the blood.” (164) We first hear this when Jack and his hunters kill the first pig. This is a really bad situation because Jack leads the group when they chant, he makes them usually say it everytime they kill showing dominate power. “Should have seen the blood!” (31) He says this after they kill the first pig and we see how Jack is not blood thirsty and this event begins rapidly to savagery, that makes him a bad leader and a role model for
Leadership is a major quality needed in something like survival, and it is difficult to maintain that concept when in a life threatening situation. Jack and Ralph, two very different types of leaders, go against each other in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. A group of boys gets trapped on an island after a plane crash, having no parents or adults there to save them. Jack, a formal choir director, was always the one to make the grand decisions, and think about what was best for the group. Ralph, a boy with the looks and the appeal, was chosen out of the group to lead everyone. Ralph assigned everyone to do specific tasks, but it ultimately failed because the lack of effort. Jack and Ralph fought because Jack did not like the style of Ralph’s leadership, and had a significant mutiny in his eyes, which led him to make a new tribe himself. The tables turned, and Jack became the better leader, while Ralph was left with only a few people alongside him.
Whenever and wherever human beings are gathered on a large scale, they need to appoint leader. In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, two honorable leaders named Jack and Ralph arise after crashing onto a tropical island in the Pacific Ocean. They must lead their group of boys to safety and rescue. However, being just twelve-years-old, they want to enjoy and have fun, without any restrictions from the adult society. The boys attempt to establish a hierarchy in which there is a designated leader whose job it is to inspire and guide his followers. Each leader has his own set of qualities that give him authority and control over his group of boys. Throughout the story, Ralph consistently delegates, makes the right decisions based on his moral integrity, resolves conflicts through effective approaches, and therefore, is a better leader than Jack.
If you had to choose between someone attractive and someone ugly, who would you choose? You’d choose looks, right? But, would you regret your decision after you figured out a few of their traits? This choice is prominent everywhere; you see it in real life, television shows, movies, and even books. One example is William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, where a group of schoolboys is dropped on an island and has to choose a leader. When faced with these questions, however, they pick the charisma of Ralph over the leadership skills of Piggy.
A good leader is someone who cares about everyone. They are loyal, and listens to everyone’s ideas. They are smart, strong, and can make tough decisions. A good leader could fight, but a better leader can choose not to. In the Lord of the Flies, a novel by William Golding, is about a boy named Ralph who wanted to get rescued and made leadership choices based on that, but another boy named Jack who prevented rescue by splitting the group up and turning survival into a game. Ralph and Jack were meant to be in the same novel because Golding wanted to show how the wrong leadership can go wrong, and on what leader you follow can be an effect on how you survive.