The Lord Of The Flies: A Leadership Analysis

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.

Leadership takes notice, responsibility, self-development, and experience. Thoughts pop up when one thinks of a leader, perhaps a captain of a team, the president, maybe even the bigger brother. These people are mostly responsible and developed, they take notice into what is happening in any situation, but the experience is where a leader and a follower have things in common in most situations. Lord of the Flies is a book where children are trapped on a deserted island and have to create their own small world. Jack is one of the chosen leaders in the book, he came with most of the children from the plane crash. They soon meet Ralph, who is another chosen leader throughout the book. So called “leaders” in the book are very important characters

Humans are a sophisticated and advanced race, one which possess the ability to affect their environment, and one another, in significant and often destructive ways. War is a catastrophic event created by humans, who upon creating it neglect to comprehend its far-reaching effects. The novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, places a group of prepubescent males into one of these situations. After an evacuation aircraft crash-lands, the boys are left upon a deserted island to manage and fend for themselves. As Golding details the trials and tribulations of the young men on the island, it becomes increasingly apparent that the children respect authority and require an organized leadership. The failure to manifest such a system will result in a de-evolution into savagery.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. -Henry Ford (Brainyquote) In the Novel Lord of the Flies the boys come together, keep together, but then begin to become completely unglued. The boys come together at the start of the Novel when an election is held. This is the first time all of the boys on the island meet. Ralph wins the election by a landslide against Jack. Although, Jack wants to be the leader of the boys because he is already the leader of the choirboys, however the boys don’t select him. This causes a divide on the island, but doesn’t cause any problems yet. This foreshadows what will happen later in chapters four and five when the boys start to become divided. In this essay, the

Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel by William Golding and published in 1951, shortly after the end of World War II. The novel follows the ventures of a group of British boys stranded on an island and seeks to address the root cause of the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. In Lord of the Flies, Ralph represents order and civilized society, while Jack represents Hitler and his fascist regime. Ralph’s shortfall lies in his myopic point of view, developed by his father’s influence. His lack of foresight in his leadership role results in the neglect of critical responsibilities, poor decision-making and a weak society, which then allows for the rise of Jack’s fascist regime.

In William Golding’s Lord of the flies, a group of boys become stranded on an island and it changes them into savages because Leadership, Fear, and No adults. Leadership hunting turn them into savage, good vs evil like Ralph and Jack, and giving a rules for leadership. For Example of leadership: Ralp is a good leader because he follow the rules that he gave to them . Fear turn them into paranoia not survival rescue drives them crazy. They are scared because of the beast that they saw on the top of the Mountain or rocks. Being a Fear is always make people scared like when they saw the beast they started to freak out because of it they separated to each other and Jack has a fear but he never showed it to them. He wants to protect themselves

Leadership is a crucial trait needed to conduct a civilization. In the novel Lord of the Flies, we quickly identify 2 main leaders; Jack and Ralph, two of the eldest boys on the island. One was elected as leader and the other forced his way into becoming one. However, because of Ralph’s wisdom and knowledge, he is the one who maintains his position throughout the whole novel.

“His mind [is] crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that ha[s] come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they ha[ve] outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink”(CITE). William Golding writes a fascinating novel “Lord of the Flies”, which is an allegory to WWII. He shows this through many unique ways in the story. Two mains ideas represented through Jack’s dictatorship way of ruling which clearly parallels to Hitler, and Ralph has a democratic style of leadership just like Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a novel that directly correlates to WWII by the two very different methods of leadership.

In the book Lord of the Flies leadership is a big role. Many people today say they’d be a good leader, but, they don’t play out to make a good leader. Jack and Ralph are the two main leaders in the book Lord of the Flies. A good leader takes responsibility, has good communication skills, and motivates their team. The most effective and consistent leader in the book is Ralph. He’s always trying to find ways to make things better. Jack tries his hardest, but isn’t as good as Ralph is. Ralph is very open when he wants to say something to the boys. For example, in the book he says, “fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream”, which means he’s being honest about what he’s talking about. A dream can’t hurt you. For example, in the book Jack says, “I am going to make rules and whoever breaks them shall be punished”. This is not what a good leader would say.

After all, no beast would ever dare try to attack a choir boy with a pointed stick. After many chapters of brutal killings and tears from this reviewer, Ralph is the only boy left who is not in Jack’s savage tribe. As most leaders do, Jack becomes drunk with power and begins to hunt down Ralph to kill him, seeing as Ralph is the only threat to his leadership and the rest of the children are all too malleable to pose any sort of danger to him. The Lord of the Flies is characterized as a pig’s head on a skewer that Jack had hunted, and whilst Ralph is running from Jack’s merry band of hunters, he strikes the head down. The pig’s head is most commonly interpreted as the evil in the children’s hearts. The story ends with a British naval officer finding them on the beach, and Ralph crying over their loss of innocence and the evil in their hearts.

"The Lord of the Files" is a British movie, widely popular through a novel written by William Golding.The movie summarizes the tale of children whose tragic plane crash washed them on a deserted island with little to no reasources.The movie progresses with the group of boys aging 10 to 12 fighting the odds to survive and thrive in the land with no adult supervison.Boys named Ralph and Jack are the main characters in the movie; they took authority over the survived boys to prevent them from panicking and creating choas.However, eventually, jack dominates the group claiming that he could protect the survivors from an unknown imaginary monster.Although everybody was reluctant at first, finally, they were forced to capitulate to jack as he offered

The pain wrapped around my head and burrowed into my torso. Heavy weight from fallen sticks an branches pained me. My headache was worsened by the realization of what had happened. Finding myself still unable to comprehend, I reasoned that starting from the beginning of this journey might give me some comprehension.

In the beginning, when order still reigns on the island, Jack seems to be the good English schoolboy. Although upset that he is not elected as chief on the island, he and Ralph soon become friends, while he and the other choir boys are given responsibility to keep the fire going and hunt, and doing this keeps Jack pleased, for a while. However, as time progresses and Jack becomes more and more obsessed with hunting, his savage nature begins to show through the civilized side. His chants of, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” represent his, and many of the other boys, desire, almost need to kill (Golding 114). Soon, Jack completely turns his back Ralph; running off with many other boys to the other, more savage, side of the island. Here, the boys hunt constantly, covered with war paint and carry spears, a bona fide savage. The lure of meat and fun soon bring the rest of the boy to Jack’s side of the island, it is here where the boys, including Ralph, participate in the murder of Simon. As the time progresses and Jack becomes more and more savage, his more violent nature comes out. Before the boys are rescued, Jack has already committed two murders, Simon and Piggy, and attempts to kill Ralph.

The theme of leadership is uncovered by the symbol of the conch. As the connection grows between the protagonist and the conch, outer forces break the bond in attempt to take the position as leader. Ralph along with other boys in Lord of the Flies by William Golding are trapped on an island due to the crash of their airplane. With no adults on the island to discipline the boys, one must step up and take on this role. The discovery of the conch encourages Ralph to become chief, Ralph has the ability to use the conch to enforce his rules, but the unfortunate shattering of the conch breaks Ralphs hold on to leadership.