Lord of the Flies: Why Ralph Is a Good Leader

German journalist John Zenger once stated, “Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths”. When one is forced into a situation where a leader is necessary, a person that displays the fundamental attributes will successfully guide the society. Throughout the novel Lord of the Flies, the boys on the island represent various aspects of leadership, characterized by differing strengths. However, the protagonist’s, Ralph, leadership undoubtedly triumph over the other boys because his attributes allow him to be a powerful leader on the island. Throughout William Golding’s novel, he clearly depicts Ralph as an effective leader through his desire for the survival of all of the boys, his adamant

In the book there is conch which gives the beholder of it power over the rest of the group. Jack knows that the group is torn on who should be their leader, so he does whatever is necessary to get the conch and control the group. Jack knows that the only way to do this is to make the group turn against Ralph. With power on his mind his begins to belittle Ralph and make the group think Ralph hasn’t been a good leader. This happens when Jack says, “Who are you, anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hunt, you can't sing” (Golding 238). The group then begins to trust Jack because Ralph seems inferior compared to him. Once Jack has this power he begins to think that everyone who isn’t with him is against him. This leads to Jack killing Piggy to stop and uprising from him and Ralph. There is no way that a 13 year old boy would kill another classmate unless he was fueled with power like Macbeth was. Jack isn’t the only one in the book to let power get the best of him, Ralph also falls victim to it. Ralph begins to disrespect his best friend on the island Piggy when the book says “Ralph pushed Piggy to one side. ‘I was chief and you were going to do what I said’” (Golding 132). This quote shows how Ralph is willing to harm someone he care about just to show everyone including Piggy how powerful he truly is. Both Ralph and Jack let power cloud their judgement which

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 leader must possess leadership skills, whether good or evil. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph possesses three good leadership skills. Three leadership skills a leader needs to have is responsibility, determination, and initiative.

In the book Lord of the Flies, a plane leaving England to get away from the war is shot down. The only people who survived were the children. They are all stranded on an island by themselves with no supervision from any adults. Golding created many different characters with many different personalities but Ralph stood out the most. Ralph had a strong personality, was a good group leader, he was also a positive thinker. All three of those characteristics show the signs of a good group leader.

In a group, there are always people who prove to have better leadership skills then others. The strongest of these people can often influence the weaker people into following them. However, the strongest person is not necessarily the best leader as it is proven in William Golding's book, The Lord of the Flies. Although Ralph is the weaker person, he is still able to show a better understanding of people than Jack who is stronger. Ralph demonstrates his excellent leadership skills throughout the book by keeping the group in line, treating everyone with respect, and staying focused on getting rescued.

In the famous novel named “Lord of the flies”, there are four main characters that William Golding built up to represent the typical personalities in human nature. While Jack stands for the powerfully instinct savagery, Simon represents the natural kindness and Piggy with his glasses is the symbol of wisdom, Ralph has the best conducts of a real leader as he was initially voted for chief. There are three main characteristics that mark him out as a felicitous leader: rational, moral and unflinching.

In the Novel, Lord Of The Flies there are two clear leaders of the population of kids on the island, which are Jack Merridew and Ralph. To fully analyze who was the best leader, we need to know what a good leader is. Both Ralph and Jack were leaders and it is arguable to which is the better leader. These leaders represent the kind of leaders that appear in our world because of their wildly different characteristics. In all, these two leaders pursue leadership in completely different ways, but that does not make them bad leaders.

I believe that Ralph is the best possible leader for the group of boys. I think that Ralph would definitely be a better option compared to Jack as well as all the other boys.

Ralph calls for an assembly to discuss what the boys have to do on the island. Jack then gets into an argument with Ralph over how Ralph isn’t a proper chief. Jack rebels Ralph’s order and decided that he’s “not going to be apart of ” (Golding 127) Ralph’s group. Jack leaving the others is the start of his rise to his dictatorial rule over the boys. Jack uses him leaving to gain followers to have authority, which leads to his misuse of power. Jack has the boys think he is a better chief than Ralph by saying he can do different things as a chief than what Ralph has done as chief. Before Jack’s rise in power, Jack further rejects order to become a dictatorial chief by breaking the rules of the island. The boys decide that they need a way to signal passing ships and go to the mountain to make a signal fire and Jack decides that. Jack rebels order by going against current rules in place through manipulating the order of the conch and says that the conch “doesn’t count on top of the mountain” (Golding 42). Jack breaking the rule of the person holding the conch further adds to his motivation to be a dictatorial chief, because he is not following rules which leads to him to be a dictatorial chief. Jack would then misuse his power and not enstate rules as a chief. Jack aspires to be a dictatorial chief through rejecting the order of the island and he also does so through the promises he gives to his

Ralph cries at least two times in the movie and for good reasons. Once after Simon is killed by the savage boys and another when the marines show up to save them just in time before he is killed. While it is easy to asses whether or not this could be a weakness or not it must not be lost that Ralph is a child first and a leader second. Being a good and effective leader means crying sometimes. It shows they are human and honest, but only when it is done at the appropriate time, as discussed in an article by Huffington Post. There are several times in the movie when he should have cried but did not. That takes a lot of emotional intelligence, which is the “ability to understand and manage one’s own moods and emotions and the moods and emotions

The message about leadership or management the author presents to the viewers is one of constant battle with opposing views.

The entire book leading up to his corruption, Jack was never happy with Ralph being chief. He always wanted to be the leader making all the decisions. At one point in the book, he even calls for a meeting and tries to overthrow Ralph as chief. “‘Hands up,’ said Jack strongly, '’whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?'’ The silence continued, breathless and heavy and full of shame. Slowly the red drained from Jack’s cheeks, then came back with a painful rush” (Golding 127). When unsuccessful with his overthrow attempt, he splits off from the group to start his own group that he can be the leader of. “'’I’m not going to be apart of Ralph’s lot.’ He looked along the the right-hand logs, numbering the hunters that had been a choir. ‘I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can can come too’” (Golding 127). Soon after this, Jack gains a large following of the kids on the island and feels very powerful. He turns them all into savages and makes his next goal to kill the final people who don’t follow him: Ralph and Piggy. Jack and Roger are responsible for Piggy falling off of a cliff, and when Ralph gets away, he sends a search party out with the intention of murder (Golding 194-200). Jack’s power hungry nature completely drove him over the

After a plane of school boys crashed on a desolate island, the boys discovered all the adults were killed and decided to elect somebody as the authority figure. The assembly chose Ralph due to him being in possession of the conch, a shell used to signal group meeting and used as a talking stick, and being the oldest. Ralph is the agile, good-looking protagonist of Lord of the Flies and continues to stay the most rational and moral. He creates a mock democracy and insists on maintaining peaceful and civilized location until rescue came. After being elected as leader, Ralph selects Jack as the head hunter, realizing Jack wanted his title. Ralph's primary objective is to be rescued by setting up a signal fire, but when a ship passes the island

Throughout the book, Jack becomes increasingly power-hungry and realizes that as long as the power of the conch is honored he will not hold power. This prompts him to say, “We don't need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say thins... It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us.” By degrading the value of the conch, Jack is influencing the boys to lean in favor of Jack’s evil intentions and away from civilization. Jack repeatedly plunges the boys into a deeper state of savagery by dismissing symbols of order. He goes so far as to completely wipe out all civilization by allowing his most violent hunter, Roger, to destroy the conch and what it represents. “The rock struck piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and cease to exist.” With the authority of the conch destroyed, Jack’s tribe becomes totally savage after committing true murder. Without the civilization the conch brought, the boys gave into man's inner evil