Ralph Lord Of The Flies Analysis

“In a 2005 survey about gay bullying statistics, teens reported that the number two reason they are bullied is because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender expression”, according to bullyingstatistics.org. It has also been shown that those who are bullied themselves often go on to bully others because it is all they know, or that bullying covers up their own shames. The character Jack Merridew in Lord of the Flies is not evil like many would argue, but rather is ashamed of the fact that he is gay and closeted. This is supported by the hunter’s casting off of religion and government, Jack’s inability to hunt unless in front of other boys, and the beast as a symbol.

Have you ever met someone who is a natural leader? In the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, British boys are sent to an island to keep them safe from a war. The boys are without any adults and must use what’s around them and what they know to survive. Ralph (one of the older boys) is a leader and tried his best to maintain peace and help the group survive. I believe Ralph doesn’t have a distinct character flaw.

In the novel the lord of the Flies, Golding uses Ralph’s responsibility and Jack’s persuasiveness and authority to argue that effective governments must be both fair and able to keep peace in a country.

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

John C. Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” Ralph, protagonist and one of the main characters in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, represents order and leadership on the island of chaos, and fits this statement very well. Beginning as chief and leader of the boys, it is a significant transition when he eventually accepts the savagery that was present inside each of them.

Leadership is an uncommon trait that stands out in those who possess it. People are like a herd of sheep, they need a shepherd. This shepherd figure more often than not tends to be the strongest person. However, the suspected strongest person doesn’t always make the best leader. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Ralph demonstrates to be a better leader than Jack, despite being physically weaker. Jack is physically stronger, while Ralph has a sturdier head on his shoulders. Ralph knows what is the best for their group of boys. He is also more well liked by the other boys opposed to Jack.

Everyone has multiple different characteristics that make them who they are whether it is being hotheaded or optimistic. These different traits are displayed with every action and reaction a person makes. Through these behaviors, you are able to find out what kind of person someone is. In the book, Lord of the Flies, one of the main characters, Ralph, like every other person, has various characteristics and it is through the events in the book that you can conclude that he is both very dominant and sensible through his words and his actions.

The protagonist, Ralph is one of oldest boys on the Island. He is described as tall and good looking. His determination to hold on to logic and the order of the world…. After discovering the conch and gathering the boys his natural leadership is recognized and he is quickly elected leader of the boys. As the most levelheaded boy on the island Ralph does his best to keep them grounded and not let them divulge into a free state of savagery. Holding to hope of one day being rescued and trying to encourage moral sensibility Ralph

Ralph is an idealistic leader who believes that others will follow him simply because he has good ideas and considers their safety extremely important. Jack, on the other hand, is a selfish leader who values comfort and fun over practicality. I believe that neither one of these boys is a true leader. Ralph has a commanding presence and the makings of a good leader, but he goes about the action of leading all wrong. Jack is an absolutely terrible leader. He places those who follow him in danger, leading some to their deaths, simply because he wants to have fun. Most of the boys chose to follow Ralph in the beginning because he was similar to the authority they would have had back home. He had their attention, he made reasonable rules, and he was going to keep them safe and get them all rescued. “...of course we shall be rescued’...Ralph’s new authority brought light and happiness.” (37) The problem was, none of the other boys wanted to do any work, other than hunting for food. That’s where jack came in. He was relatable. He knew what it was like to

Leadership is not a characteristic that anyone can obtain. It’s not something that you are born with, but something that is developed. In the novel Lord of the Flies, there are different people who show different aspects of what leadership is. An effective leader is someone who can show growth and change himself for the better, lead with responsibility, and popularity takes a role. In Lord of the Flies, I think that Ralph is was a good person to be chosen as a leader. He has demonstrated all these characteristics. On the other hand, when someone is talking about someone I believe to be a good leader, I think of Malcolm X.

In 1954 William Golding wrote the fictional novel Lord of the Flies, which is about a group of boys who are stranded on an island because of a plane crash, and have to find a way to stay civilized while trying to get rescued. Two boys who ended up hating each other are the characters Jack and Ralph. Even though Ralph was the main leader, they both end up being leaders but in different ways. Jack mostly used meanness and Ralph was nice and supportive. They also had the same goal but in different ways. Jack hunted and separated himself from Ralph and his group, Ralph mostly built and made plans. But they both were the most determined out of any character in the novel. In Lord of the Flies you can learn a lot, but the main theme is that

When a child begins to walk, they fall down. Through all the mistakes they keep going and will succeed but will also continue to fall. Yet, they don’t give up and keep trying until soon they are running. If people were to use these ambitions in life, we would have an ample supply of leaders. On the island, Ralph shows these aspirations, portraying the leadership skills in him. He is just starting to lead and he encounters trouble and does fall. Yet he will get up because Ralph is a strong leader. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies novel he uses characterisation to show how Ralph, a natural born leader, will lead the other children even though in the end he was betrayed by them due to the temptations of others.

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the

Are you a leader or a follower? A leader leads the followers, so which one are you? Well in this essay I will talk to you about Ralph, a character in the past book we read as a class named The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, I will tell you all about ralph and I, on how we are similar, how we are different and lastly how I admire Ralph for his role in the book.

“Isolation is a dream killer” (Barbara Sher). In the novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, kids stranded on an island must figure out how to survive. By hunting pigs and building shelters the kids tried to subsist on the island. Through the process of hunting, the kids became cruel, evolving to the point of being barbaric. Thus, through the barbaric actions of the boys and the outside world, Golding shows that savagery exists in all people.