...In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, leadership plays a huge role in the plot and structure of the novel. Jack and Ralph tend to battle out who gets the main role as leader of the group of boys. Ralph is first elected leader in the beginning assembling the boys with a conch shell and having the boys vote between Jack and Ralph. Later in the novel after the death if Piggy, Jack makes a point to the boys saying that he should be the leader because he can provide them food and safety. In the novel, Jack and Ralph have two very different point of views on leadership, Jack is more of a protector and Ralph would rather make shelter and help with keeping the boys physiological state, both leaders keep Maslows Hierarchy of Needs in mind when leading the boys. Ralph is the first leader elected by the boys of the island, Ralph wanted the boys to elect a leader unlike Jack who just said pick me to be your leader. After Ralph blew the conch shell and gathered the boys, he decided...
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...In order to understand the true essence of leadership, it must be practiced like any other sport. It is impossible for this character trait to be passed down from generation to generation. There are no perfect criteria that determines a “good” leader, so I cannot say I know the true qualities of a leader. Ralph displays “good” leadership in William’s Golding novel Lord of the Flies. Ralph understands the situation at hand, and he acts accordingly to ensure everyone’s survival. His character reminds me of Michael Phelps in the Olympic world. The leadership did not come easily to each one of these people, so his experiences must have helped transform the person he is today. As a Northeast District Representative for the Indiana Association of...
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...In today's very fast paced and competitive world, a leader is needed in almost any situation, and without one, you have many troubles and problems because you don't have a person to follow with. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the Leader, Ralph, is chosen because of many reasons and has effective ways of handling a group of boys. Leaders have to have good qualities to be good leaders other than only thought process , like the physical appearance of the leader, the items he possesses and overall his personality by his actions. The physical attributes of a leader are an amazing way of attracting candidates to vote for you as the leader and is an equally important aspect of having thought process. Ralph has...
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...Why is it that a commander always has a second-in-command? Or a president, a vice president? A king or queen, a royal advisor? Is it so there’s someone to take over if the leader dies? Is it to keep the leader in check? Not entirely. There’s always a second, because one person can’t be a good leader alone. There is no person in the world who has every trait of a great leader. The traits are shared and spread between various people. Not only does this make people work together to overcome their difficulties, but it also ensures a separation of powers in order to keep one person from rising up as a tyrant. Lord of the Flies showed a great example of this idea. Ralph and Piggy were easily the two best leaders of the group, but neither of the boys...
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...In the novel The Lord Of The Flies there are two boys that want to be the leader for all of the kids on the island. The boys names are Ralph and Jack, Ralph was the leader and then later everybody went to Jack because they thought that he would be better than Ralph. In the beginning of the book all of the boys were proud and strong headed that English people were the best and when Jack becomes leader they all run around with paint on their bodies and their hair grown out. Knowing what happens in the book makes me believe that Ralph is the best leader for the boys on the island. Early in the book Ralph had taken charge of the boys and decided that they needed to have a leader and rules so the boys chose between Ralph and Jack and Ralph got leader. Right away Ralph told Jack the choirboys were his and that they could be what Jack wanted and he chose hunters. Ralph also said that they needed to have rules and said anyone that wants to talk has to hold the conch. Ralph makes it so everyone has a job on the island so it makes all the boys feel like they are helping. Ralph, Jack, and Simon went a walk around the island to see if they could find anything or anybody that could help...
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...In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there are two characters who are fighting for leadership over the island they are stranded on. Both Ralph and Jack have characteristics to be leaders, but Ralph is the better leader in this case. Ralph is a better leader because he is more respectful of others than Jack. He also keeps things more civilized throughout the book and he cares about getting rescued, whereas Jack doesn’t really show this concern of getting off of the island. There are several reasons why Ralph is a better leader than Jack in the book Lord of the Flies. One reason is Ralph shows more concern of getting off of the island than Jack does. In chapter four Jack and his tribe were supposed to be watching the fire, and they let it go out. The narrator said, “The fire was out, smokeless and dead; the watchers were gone.” (68). The fire is a very important thing in this book. If a boat went by the island and saw the smoke, they would’ve known that there were people on it. Along with being more concerned about getting off of the island, Ralph is reassuring. He says, “And sooner or...
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...In the novel Lord of the Flies, Ralph and Jack compete to be the leader of the group since they first met. Ralph has completely different leadership views than Jack does. Ralph for instance, uses the conch to signify that someone is speaking in the group, Jack on the other hand believes that if someone wishes to speak that they should be able to. Between Jack and Ralph, Ralph is more suitable to be leader of the group. One reason Ralph is a better leader is he wants to focus on the most important things first. His first thoughts are fire for rescue, shelter to keep them safe through the night, and then focus on food and water. Moreover, Jack thinks right away that the group should be hunting instead of worrying about the fire. Secondly,...
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...Leadership is a process by which an executive can direct, guide and influence the behavior and work of others towards the accomplishment of specific goals in a given situation. Leadership is the ability of a manager to induce the subordinates to work with confidence and zeal. But in this novel, Ralph don't have the required leadership skills like communication skill and his character is inevitably not going to competent the position of a leader. At the beginning of chapter five, Ralph calls a meeting to talk about how they will survive. At this point, Ralph is trying to act like an adult and a responsible leader. He talks about making smoke to get rescued and also why the kids are breaking up and acting like savages. Piggy tries to explain his ideas on the beast in the jungle. He also asks what the beast eats, and the kids say "Pig." Simon as well tries to convince everyone that there is no beast but Jack makes fun of him and shuts him up. Jack questions Ralph’s leadership, then Jack breaks a rule and talks without the conch. At last, Ralph and Piggy realize they are losing control of the group....
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...Elected Leader Ralph was the elected leader of the group of kids on the island. He wanted to build a civilization that mirrors where they came from. As a representative of law and order, the conch helps Ralph get elected: “[…]The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart" (22). Ralph gets around to blowing the conch. He reminds the boys of some rules: (1) (as you might have guessed) KEEP THE SIGNAL FIRE GOING, (2) don't build any other fires, and (3) do their toilet business by the rocks near the bathing pool instead of all over the island, as they have been doing (the boys snigger and laugh at this last item) quoted by shmoop.com. You should act like Ralph because he uses his power keep the group together and survive on the island. Don’t act like Ralph when he keeps people from voicing their opinion because they cannot grab the conch from other people. Loner Simon is the only good character on the island because he is nice to others and respect their lives. Simon is a child who wanders the forest looking for answers but he is found beaten to death near the beach. He also shows the kids how to treat each other in a survival situation. “Simons eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick”(130) He think the kids have the beast inside of them because they fear the beast. The boys act out this pig hunt over and over, in a sort of play-acting ritual that takes...
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...With leadership in his hands, Ralph decides that rescue and order are of utmost importance and sets out to establish both. To do so, he called the island to an assembly. “’We’ll have rules!’ he cried excitedly. ‘Lots of rules!’”(33). Even in the very first assemblies, Ralph conveys his own understanding that remaining civil and orderly will help them be rescued. And through their rules and standards, they manage to keep a signal fire going. A while after the boys’ society forms, Jack takes the people tending the fire to help him hunt, and the fire dies. “’There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!’”(70). Ralph exhibited the most important trait of a leader: giving punishment. Although the boys had a...
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...Mar, Alexa Period 2 Mr.O The Lord Of The Flies Which is better, to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill? A symbol is something that has great value. William Golding wrote the novel, “Lord of the Flies”. His purpose in using symbolism is to send certain messages to certain people. He wants to send a message to make people realize that you can change for the better or for the worst. I believe the most important symbol in LOTF is the conch. The conch is the most important because it represents leadership and unity. The conch represents leadership. With the help of the conch, Ralph became the tribe’s leader. “But there was a stillness about Ralph…yet most powerfully there was the conch.” (pg.22). This shows that Ralph became leader mostly because of the conch. The conch was powerful to them. Ralph became their leader. In the article, the author states, “Ralph: leadership: order: Civilization.” This shows that Ralph is capable of being a leader. In society, leadership is important because without leaders, there will be no one to lead us to a great change. The conch represents authority. The stranded boys are deciding for a chief. “He lifted the conch. ‘Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.’” (pg.22) This shows the boys voting for a chief to have order. Anyone who has the conch may speak with no interruptions since it was tumult. On the article, the author states, “…Anyone holding the conch in...
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...How could Lord of the Fliesbe described as an allegory? If it is an allegory, what message does Golding want to get across to his readers? What allegorical roles are the characters playing? Allegory Allegory is a form of extended metaphor, in which objects, persons, and actions in a narrative, are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral, social, religious, or political significance, and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity, greed, or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Types of allegory 1. Political allegory 2. Social allegory 3. Religious allegory POLITICAL ALLEGORY Political Allegory in William Golding's Lord of the Flies’ “Lord of the Flies is an allegory on human society today, the novel's primary implication being that what we have come to call civilization is, at best, no more than skin-deep" Though the need for civilization is focused on in this novel, the significance of political order, shown allegorically, is consistently referenced to. When utilizing political allegory, the characters are used as symbols that, overall, represent some kind of political organization. In Lord of the Flies, the persons, or characters allegorized include Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Roger, the biguns, and the littluns; each considered an important component of their political establishments. For most every society, there is a system...
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...How does William Golding support his hypothesis of what could possibly happen on an island when humans and boys in particular are marooned there? You may consider setting, characterization, themes and/or symbolism you must incorporate quotes from the text to support your analysis. William Golding wrote Lord of the Flies shortly after the end of WWII. The novel's plot, in which a group of English boys end up stranded on a deserted island struggle to develop their own society, is a social and political thought-experiment using fiction. The story focuses on their attempts at civilization, devolution into savagery and violence puts the relationship between human nature and society under literary observation. Golding uses several allusions to human evolution, such as when the boys discover fire, craft tools, and form political and social systems in a process that recalled theories of the development of early man. Golding's hypothesis about humanity is pessimistic, that is, there are anarchic and brutal instincts in human nature. He displays this throughout his conveying of the setting, characterization, themes, and symbolism. The novel takes place on an un-known inhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, Immediately in the novel Golding reveals the instinct of the restricted human savagery in the boys in regard to the setting. “Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and open space of the scar” Page 10. Golding shows the...
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...Lord of the Flies is a 1963 British film directed by Peter Brook based on the 1954 novel by William Golding. Both the book and movie of Lord of the Flies represent popular culture in the fact that the book started out being popularized by the working class and would later become a best seller and even move into the category of high culture by becoming required reading in many schools across the world as well as wining the Nobel Prize. The Lord of the Flies and book and movie demonstrate many of the traits that are often reproduced in various form media and often imitated in other works of film, television, and reading. Lord of the Flies was remade into another film in 1990 but the 1963 film is considered to be closer to the book and is the one that is used by this paper. The 1963 Lord of the Flies film is a black and white British film that is presented in the form of a third person narrative in which the audience is a outside party looking in on the cast of the film. The film is about a group of young pre-teen to teenage boys who crash land on an island somewhere is the specific ocean as a result of their plane being shoot down. In the background of the movie there is some type of war but the film never mentioned which war is taking place. With the film being based on a book from the 1950s and the film taking place in the 1960 it can be assumed that the war in question is either World War II or perhaps a future war. In the film the overall theme is that violence and hate...
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...Someone that is either too controlling or uncontrolling will likely lead to the downfall of the team because of increased disorder or a change in the path towards the team’s goal. As can be seen in another character from “Lord of the Flies” who dictates a group of savages, it is described that “power lay in the brown swell of his forearms” (150) and “authority sat on his shoulder” (150). Because of Jack’s implementation of a tyrannical ruling style, his group eventually falls into the trap of disorder and fear, preventing benefit to the members of the group itself. On the other hand, if the team is lead or influenced by excessive leniency, then it will fail to maintain order and prosper. If a key figure or decision maker in our team adapts either an extremely controlling or uncontrolling style, the group will fail the cooperate towards the collective goal. Therefore, avoiding those who are too aggressive and controlling, or those who are careless will be a large detriment...
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