How Does Golding Show Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

William Golding's Captivating novel Lord of the Flies is a story about unifying diverse people in order to form a society and find a way to go home.Children who survive a plane crash come together construct a civilization since they are alone on the island,they are also trying to do all they can to get the attention of those who are going across the ocean. The plane crash occurs during world war two, on a deserted island.In the Lord of the Flies the symbols Ralph and Jack help convey Golding’s purpose of expressing the effects of power and leadership.Jack represents a leader whose mind is overridden by power and will destroy anything that comes in the way of his power, Ralph represents a leader who has a soft side and is seen to be weak.
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Ralph turned toward the platform the conch glimmered among the trees, a white blob against the place where the sun would rise. He pushed back his mop, I don’t know” (Golding 124). This shows Ralph was scared of the beast and he could not come up with a plan to get rid of the danger.This is because Ralph was not barbaric or violent he really just wanted to find his home way home not to fight beasts. Furthermore “I don't think we’d ever fight anything that size, honestly you know we’d talk but we wouldn't fight a tiger, we’d hide even jack wu’d hide”(Golding 124). This shows that Ralph didn't want to accept to also put the thought of not fighting the creatures in the mind of the boys even saying that jack wouldn't fight the beast either.

For example, instead of him working with Ralph for the benefit of the group he tries to impose dominion over the group.This shows that now Jack has become power hungry and does not want to be a follower rather he would be the leader, this is because Jack gets the conch then summons a meeting and asks everyone who thinks Ralph should no longer be the leader.Furthermore he wants to be the chief not just the head of the hunters “Who thinks Ralph oughtn't be chief? He looked expectantly at the boys ranged around, who had frozen to the palms and deadly silence hands up said Jack strongly,whoever wants Ralph not to be chief” (Golding 127). This shows that Jack wants to overthrow Ralph from the leadership position and take over so he can do things the way he wants and likes, this is because he has gone power hungry and has gotten tired of Ralph's ways and Jack also believes that the leader should be a skilled hunter.”I am going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone that wants to hunt when i do can come too” (Golding 127). This shows that he has separated himself from Ralph and he is off to start his own group whether boys come with him or not, this is because he feels Ralph is not fit to be a leader and should not be left in the leadership position. Jack is a power hungry boy he hates the fact he is not able to control the group, now he is willing to sacrifice the unity of the group in order to