In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, one of the main characters, Ralph, is head chief from the beginning. Rebellions against Ralph start to elevate one evening when he is making a long speech about the bad series of incidents that lead to them not being rescued; these rebellions cause him to ponder about stepping down from being chief. However, it was his own fault that the boys turned on him because he was naive at the fact that the group before him was formed of immature little boys and a jealous one. Ralph is the main chief of all of the boys stuck on this island and a chief or any leader needs to remember who his followers are. In Ralph’s case, they are very little boys who are amused by the silliest and most foolish things, and cannot …show more content…
Most of his rebellion, though, comes from his jealousy of power--power that Ralph kept pointing out in his speech: “ ‘Now I say this and make it a rule, because I’m chief’ … ‘All this I meant to say. Now I’ve said it. You voted me for chief. Now you do what I say’ ” (Golding 81). As if everyone needed a reminder, he has the need to repeat that HE is chief, and they must follow his word. He caused the rebellion from Jack, abusing his power in this speech and taunting him with it: “Jack’s face swam near him. ‘And you shut up! Who are you, anyway? Sitting there and telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing--’ … ‘Why should choosing [that Ralph is chief] make any difference. Just giving orders that don’t make any sense--’ ” (Golding 91). From the beginning, one could always see the spark of competition and envy from Jack to Ralph, but Ralph had just magnified it to a much larger spectrum with the unnecessary reminders in his speech. Although Jack had his mind and heart set on taking Ralph out of power ever since he landed the position, and his voice in this matter, with his influence on the littluns, was a fault in the audience, Ralph had lit the flame that made Jack blow up in the first