Leadership In Lord Of The Flies: A Character Analysis

In the novel Lord Of The Flies, the characters are young children who are helped to escape the war of England, and are stranded on the island which forces the “inner” complexities that an individual begins to face as rash thinking and morals are thrown out the window and replaced with the need of dominance and the fear intimacy. The main characters of the story is that a group of boys on a plane crashes down on an island where they are no longer under the supervision or help of any adult or guardian supervision. The young individuals take in their “new” home and begins to make shape of whatever structure they could muster together. Through the use of a symbolism of leaderships called with the conch, the individuals begin to take in different ways to control their own “factions” within the

The projection on those that are close to Ralph such as Piggy, or what they had been wanting to do to Simon, the violence being put forward on the other individuals shows the resentment and how he feels what should be done and how they should be followed in by greatly being pushed to limits that need to be done by the “leaders” within the story to further express their views on those who follow them. The children in Lord of the Flies are all broken down through psychoanalysis to simply express how the fear of intimacy, self awareness, and projection will greatly further the way of the children will change the world around them in the loss of civility and the dependence in adults to keep themselves in order and surviving the harsh world that the human complex will create for