Who Was Ralph Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

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 and Ralph were motivated for their actions in different ways. Ralph was motivated strictly by the hope of being rescued. Even though he called meetings and tried to organize the group of boys to do simple things like build huts or keep the fire going so they could be rescued or survive, the boys would go play or bathe. Ralph said to Jack ‘"And they keep running off, you remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?" (51) The only person who would listen or work with Ralph was Simon. Unfortunately, the other boys continued to ignore Ralph's leadership throughout the novel and eventually all turned to Jack for leadership. Jack was motivated by hunting and killing. His obsession for this began when he was frustrated with himself for not killing the pig in the first chapter: ‘"He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy" (29).There would actually be no mercy from Jack from that point on. Eventually all of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, turned to Jack's evil ways, even to the point of participating in the killing of Simon. Effectively, Ralph was motivated by the hope of rescue for his actions and Jack motivated by bloodlust.

Jack and Ralph were motivated for their actions in different ways. Ralph was motivated strictly by the hope of being rescued. Even though he called meetings and tried to organize the group of boys to do simple things like build huts or keep the fire going so they could be rescued or survive, the boys would go play or bathe. Ralph said to Jack ‘"And they keep running off, you remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?" (51) The only person who would listen or work with Ralph was Simon. Unfortunately, the other boys continued to ignore Ralph's leadership throughout the novel and eventually all turned to Jack for leadership. Jack was motivated by hunting and killing. His obsession for this began when he was frustrated with himself for not killing the pig in the first chapter: ‘"He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy" (29).There would actually be no mercy from Jack from that point on. Eventually all of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, turned to Jack's evil ways, even to the point of participating in the killing of Simon. Effectively, Ralph was motivated by the hope

he decides whether evil prevails over good or otherwise. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding writes about a group of British military boys who are marooned in a strange island and they decide on how to get rescue. Ralph, one of the main characters in the novel portrays Civilization and race for emancipation, While Jack chooses to continually long for power and immortalises the passion for hunting.

Jack was a very power hungry young boy.  Although he doesn't have any power at the beginning of the novel, he took every opportunity to take the position of chief and was eventually successful. Jack's dictatorial style of leadership contrasted very directly with the more democratic and passive style of Ralph.  Jack ruled with an iron fist, allowing no one to question him or his leadership. Jack represented the wanting for a single, all-powerful leader to guide the followers of society using any means he feels necessary.

In the United States’ past, the elected Presidents have been blamed for many catastrophes. This includes hurricanes, the Gulf Oil Spill, the decline of the economy from sending jobs overseas and the greed of Wall Street, home foreclosures, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, etc. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, on the island, Ralph is in charge of all of the boys. Even though there has been so much chaos since Ralph was voted leader, he is not solely responsible for the chaos that has occurred. The boys themselves are responsible for all the things they have committed.

Lord of the Flies follows the story of British boys who try to survive after their plane crashed on a remote island. As the novel progresses, a rivalry between the main character, Ralph, and the head of the hunters, Jack, begins to emerge. The character of Ralph representing civilization and the desire to remain civilized and hold on to their English Values, while Jack represents the desire to embrace the animalistic instinct and live a darwinist life where the strong live and the weak die. The portrayal of civilization and its effects tend to be positive in the novel with Ralph using his authority as leader to create rules for the safety of the boys and create a plan to try and get the boys off of the island. Ralph and his Friend Piggy both try to hold on to the ethics they were taught back in England and they are portrayed as the most level headed characters in the story. Jack, who abandons the ethics he was taught in society, uses his authority as leader of the

Jack and Ralph have different leadership style from each other. Ralph cares about other people he is selfless, like a leader he helps the team to procced with their task. Ralph also cares about other people opinion in the group as he has an open mind about opinions, he does not use fear to get power over the group. Ralph is trying hard to keep the group civilized in the book by setting rules. “And another thing .We ought to have more rules” (Golding 42). This quote shows that Ralph is trying to control the group as there is no order in the group, and that everyone is goofing around. Unlike Jack who has militaristic type of leadership he is also the leader of the hunters. He doesn’t value other people’s opinion and he wants things to go his way. Also he uses fear to enforce order in his own group of hunters. “‘He’s terror. And the chief –they’re both-terrors”” (Golding 189). This quote shows that Jack with the help of Roger they both

The boys choose Ralph as leader not only because of his height, but most importantly, because he possesses the conch. The boys recognize Ralph as the one who gathered them together by blowing the shell-like conch and choose him as their leader.

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

From the beginning of the Lord of the Flies, Jack and Ralph fought over who should be chief and have all the control. Basically they were fighting for dominance, as is the way that males in nature are they fight over who is stronger and smarter, who ever is to win takes the role of chef and all the bragging rights. Both boys have their strengths and weaknesses, Ralph is more intelligent and listens to the other to determine the best approach to a situation while on the other hand with jack it's his way or the highway. In this story Ralph is the better leader because he will listen and take information into account.

Ralph is a good leader but most of the boys follow Jacks lead because of a few reasonings and one of them being that he can hunt and he provided them with food. Even though it was uncooked meat at least it was protein that needed. At this point in the book William Golding has been foreshadowing how the boys split into two “tribes”. One of them being Ralph and the other of course being Jack. Ralph is the nice and kind leader who wants to get off the island. Jack is the type of leader who rules with fear and power. His power as being able to provide meat for his people.

At the beginning of the book Ralph was one of the first characters introduced and by the time the first chapter is over its clearly known what type of leader he was going to be. He never liked conflict, but he stood up for what he thought was right. He made sure everyone was included, even Piggy, when making decisions or when he assigned jobs for the boys to do on the island.

Second, Ralph struggles to maintain his leadership; however, he keeps his leadership. “Jack was loud and active. He gave orders, sang, whistled, threw remarks at the silent Ralph ... and still Ralph was silent. No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move ... . So Ralph asserted his chieftainship ... . ... Jack was powerless and raged without knowing why” (Golding 102). Ralph’s determination he has to stay in command and that he is not going to get belittled by Jack. This effects Jack from being in charge. Jack gets angry and hungry for the leadership he

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a novel about a group of children who get stranded on a tropical island. The main setting in the novel is the boat shaped island that the young boys find themselves stranded on. The boat shape of the island is a reference to the famous allegory, originating from plato about a crew that all try and steer the boat reminiscent of the conflict between Jack and Ralph, two of the older boys, concerning leadership. The island also shows the similarities between the novel the Coral Island, as the island is self sustaining and utopian but becomes baleful as their stay on the island advances.The importance of the island is that it impacts the behaviour of the characters, developing the plot. The island also reveals things about Jack, Piggy, Simon and Ralph as it shows how different personalities react to the same environment as well as the writer's intent.