Ralph Vs Jack In Lord Of The Flies

It is clear that Jack is a better leader than Ralph because he is more of a demanding, manipulative person. From the time the boys landed on the island, Jack was in control of the choir. “The other boys, led by Jack, run off in disorganized excitement to light the signal fire”(Reilly, 3). This quote shows

“Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph’s chest with his spear. Ralph sensed the position of the weapon from the glimpse he caught of Jack’s arm and put the thrust aside with his own butt. Then he brought the end round and caught Jack a stinger across the ear. The were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring.”(196). Two strong types of leadership can lead to devastating outcomes. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Ralph and Jack have two very different types of leadership that are at different ends of the spectrum. The qualities of Ralph and Jack are different, Jack’s beliefs contrast those of Ralph, and the styles of leadership that Ralph and Jack use are as different as night and day. To begin, it takes

Comparing and contrasting Jack and Ralph gives the reader an insight and better understanding of how the book develops. They have many similarities and differences between them. These main characters help explain things in the book like the theme, characteristics, actions, and rivalries. Some major keys of the compare and contrast are qualities in leadership, lessons they teach, and their relationships.

The conflict between Ralph and Jack shows how lack of civilization can result to savagery. Ralph states, “We need shelters” contrasting to Jack who says, “We need meat” (Golding, p.42). The lack of civilization in Jack shows because he thinks hunting is more important than shelters although he has yet to catch a pig, while on the other hand Ralph thinks it’s more important to build shelter for a sense of home and protection from the rain and the beastie that all the littluns are afraid of. “Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing”(Golding, p. 15). This quote states that Ralph should be in charge because he has the conch, and Jack gets upset since he is not voted chief but then Ralph puts him charge of the choir boys who later on become the hunters. Ralph creates civilization when he is given power to become the chief on the island, and he has the power with or without the conch. Later in the novel when Ralph realizes he doesn’t like being dirty and “disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair put of his eyes,” it shows that Ralph is used the civilization he had before and wants to return to that civilization (Golding, p.66). Then Jack becomes an example of savagery when he shows up to the fire in chapter 8, “stark naked save for the paint and a belt” (Golding, p.125). Ralph and his followers show the civilized and orderly side of the island, but on the contrary, Jack and his tribe show the savagery of man and barbaric side of the island.

The reason why Ralph represents the leader is because one thing is that he got elected out of the group of boys to be in charge, and another reason being that he wants everybody on the island to survive with him, while Jack is the kind of character who wants to be the boss of the group and wants to be able to control the boys plus he is also the person that shows violence towards others. For example when Ralph is in charge he wanted the group to build huts so that they could have shelter on the island, and an example of Jack being a poor leader is when he went with the other group of hunters and went killing the pigs on the island as if it was a sport just for the killing of the pigs, Jack was even the one who said “Get him it’s the beast!” which was when Simon went into the middle of the group and got killed by all of the boys by accident. Another example of when Jack was very pitiful was when he stole the glasses from Piggy without telling him, so when Piggy went to get his glasses from jack, Roger then rolled down the boulder on to him which then killed

Ralph was the better choice for their leader because he believed in form and structure. He wanted the boys to work together so they could be rescued. Ralph attempted to get the boys to build a shelter, gather food, and operate other responsibilities for their survival, but none of the boys were motivated to do any work. In comparison, Jack just wanted to hunt and goof around on the island and ignored Ralph’s rules. Without Ralph’s leadership skills and regulations, the boys would not have survived during their time on the island.

I'm doing the 3rd writing prompt. I'm not sue how this will end up but here it goes. Ralph and Jack compete throughout the story in many different ways. The main was was to be leader. Jack and Ralph compete to be leader at the beginning of the story and they all vote, and Rralph wins. Ralph easily wins due to and how kind he was. Ralph was not happy with Jack being the leader.

In conclusion, Ralph is the more intelligent, responsible, and better leader. Even though Jack has some skills that qualify as a good leader, he would not know how to lead a

First off Ralph is better than Ralph because he seems more sane and more intelligent than Jack. Jack just wants to be the most powerful Man/person on the island and just really just wants to be number one; that his opinion is what everyone wants to hear he’s kinda ignorant self centered just all the bossy traits as a dictator. Now ralph is better, for one reason he has his goal set this is a repeat from the introduction. It’s true he wants to get off the island i would follow him because why wouldn’t you want to get off this god forsaken island after the

In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down over an uninhabited tropical island in the midst of a raging war. Stranded with no adult supervision, the boys make an unsuccessful attempt to recreate the culture they leave behind. As time passes, the group gradually succumb to savage instincts, and Ralph, a young, charismatic boy’s position as leader declines precipitously while Jack, an aggressive, commanding individual’s rises triumphantly. The conflict between Ralph and Jack represent the forces of savagery and civilization that arise among the boys. Despite Jack’s successes, Ralph possesses the ability to show initiative, responsibility, courage, and selflessness which makes him the

The quote “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.” (Golding, 56) symbolizes an abundance about the situation between Ralph and Jack. In this case, the continents represent the constant leadership of Ralph and Jack because even though continents can shift and change they are always there to fall back on, not unlike the two boys. To clarify, since the beginning of the novel Ralph and Jack have been the leaders that the group of boys rely on.

When Ralph dreams, he dreams about feeding sugar to ponies. When he wakes up, the twins are babbling about the beast. Yep, sounds like a loss of innocence to us.

‘Lord of the Flies’ is a novel written by William Golding which follows the story of a group of school boys, the survivors of a plane crash, who find themselves isolated on a desert island, waiting to be rescued.

The novel " Lord of the Flies" focuses on the conflict that exists between two competing impulses that Golding, suggests exist within all humans; these being the instinct to follow the rules, act in a peaceful manner and comply to moral commands compared to the instinct to act violently in order to gain control over others and to satisfy our own greed and personal desires. The conflict exists within the novel in several forms; law and order vs. anarchy, civilization vs. savagery and the basic term of good vs. evil. Golding uses these themes consistently throughout the novel, clearly associating instinctive savagery with evil and the instinct of civilisation with good. The representation of this lies in Ralph and Jack, the two central

Jack carried a makeshift spear he walks back to the beach where he finds Ralph and Simon at work building huts for the smaller children. The huts keep falling before they are even completed and no one besides Simon is helping him.The rest of the boys are playing in the lagoon. All the boys were excited by the plans they made but no one wants to help achieve it. In the meantime Ralph and Jack are bittering at each other, so Simon wanders through the jungle alone. He helps some of the younger boys reach fruit hanging from a high branch. He walks even deeper into the forest and finds a thick jungle glade, a peaceful, beautiful open space. Simon looks around to make sure that he is alone he then sits down to take in the beauty of life that surrounds