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Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

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Leadership is a principal theme in Lord Of The Flies as it shows how being a leader is difficult and how society can crumble, effortlessly. It also implicitly explains how societies need leadership; it is the pillar that holds society from crumbling down. To be a leader isn’t that hard. However, to be a leader with the following qualities, makes them a strong one: inner strength, to be mature, confident and courageous; clarity, to be clear and straightforward; discipline, to be able to be strict and tell people off for things they shouldn’t be doing or saying, without doubt. The following forge the definition of inner strength: maturity, confidence and courage. Ralph is a lot more mature than Jack. This is recognised in the book, as Ralph cares about the long term (being rescued) “And sooner or later a ship will put in here. It might even be Daddy's ship. So you see, sooner or later, we shall be rescued”. This shows that Ralph is determined for a ship to come and get them off island and he wants those on the island to believe it too. Jack just cares about his needs in the present (meat) "Ralph, we need meat even if we are hunting the other thing”. This shows that he needs to fulfill his present needs, to eat meat. …show more content…

”But if there was a snake we'd hunt it and kill it”. This suggests that Jack likes to make the people feel safe around him, as it makes him more respected. “We need hunters to get us meat. And another thing”. This suggests that Ralph gives speeches on what the boys should do and why they should do it. He tries to make everyone fully understand what he means by rambling on and

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What he is seeing is not a boring job of hunting animals for food, it is hunting for fun and for sprit. The bloodlust, joy, and power that comes with killing an animal is overwhelming. To Ralph, it looks like Jack’s way of life and method of hunting is exciting and energetic, compared to his monotonous task of building huts, watching over little kids, and making sure everyone is following the rules. Symbolically, Ralph is struggling to decide whether atavism or civility is the better choice to follow. His current method, using civility and reason to solve problems is not fun and easy.

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“ Leaders are people who do the right thing.” Said Professor Warren G. Bennis. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies demonstrates contrasting leadership. One of the leaders stands out the most, by the way he acts around the boys, to the way he self-regulates. Simon should be the leader in Lord of the Flies because he is a guardian, is beneficial and is not swayed by the group .

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Jack remind Ralph that the boys want meat. Reminding jack that they also want shelters tells Jack that his hunters came back to the beach hours ago and are swimming. Bringing the attention back to himself Jack tells how he went deeper into the woods alone, and almost killed a pig. Ralph, still focused on building the huts, acts annoyed towards Jack's story and Jack notices. Jack adds more fuel to his story, counteracting Ralph's negativity, he says "But I shall!

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This shows that Jack isn’t paying attention to the other humans while he shows kindness and the ability to deeply understand others this way illustrating his understanding of the people. Ralph is some way is running a government which would be like a democracy which means that all of the boys would get equal rights and they can express themselves the way they want. Jack treats the boys mostly Piggy as a less of a person and importance. Then when Jack goes hunting and get meat he gives some to all the boys except for Piggy which made his really mad and upset. So then he goes and asks for some due to being hungry and they aren't eating that much during the day Jack asks him if he was the one who was out hunting.

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A leader is born not created! In the novel “Lord of the Flies” written by William Golding, a group of kids that have crashed on a plane and end up stranded on the island. The group of boys decide they need a chief and the two boys they decide on are Jack and Ralph. Between the two there is one that is the leader the kids need and the more superior leader is Ralph. In this realistic fiction novel there is evidence that proves to show that each boy has special qualities that makes them a good leader and Ralph's special traits are his passion, responsibility and his treatment to all the boys on the island.

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This is juxtaposed with Jack wanting to hunt yet again. Jack takes the boys and uses them to assist in killing the pig, but, coincidentally, a ship passes the island while Jack has the boys that were responsible for keeping the fire going (Golding 68). This once again shows evidence of Jack’s insistence on the need to hold power. He feels that orders from Ralph don 't apply to him. He thinks he knows what 's best.

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Ralph and Jack are similar in a way that they both are eager to make rules and punish who break them. Yet, Jack consistently breaks the rules for his own interest. His main interest, hunting, begins as the desire of meat and survival but builds to the savagery urge to kill creatures. Parallel to the rising fear of beasts, Jack makes use of the beast to his advantage. During littluns’ panic attack over the existence of the beast, Jack impugns Ralph’s authority by saying “He'd never have got us meat," implying that Jack is an effective leader who could hunt meat and protect the boys from the beast.

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