Comparative Essay: Leadership Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm
Comparative essay: Leadership in Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm
Essay question: You are required to write a comparative essay. You should compare one aspect of the texts such as theme, conflict, character or relationship. The texts are ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Animal Farm’.
The two books, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm circle around the themes of power, leadership, law, disorder, good and evil. On a personal level, these themes come up in the way people relate to each other: How they interact, who becomes a follower, a manipulator, who takes responsibility, who becomes a victim and who a perpetrator. In the two books both Jack and Napoleon stick out as having so called leadership qualities.
Leadership, as shown in Golding's Lord of the flies, and Orwell's Animal Farm, deals with theme of human and animal nature. One of the central concerns in both novels are the conflicts that exist between living by rules, acting peacefully, following moral commands and valuing the good of the group against the instinct for power. In both books the characters that assume leadership do so by creating a common enemy, in Lord of the Flies it is the beast and in Animal Farm it is the “two legged” human being. “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD...” (pg. 22) By establishing a prejudice the leaders give their followers a belief that provides them with a foothold. The authority of the leaders is therefore strengthened.
In Lord of the Flies, Jack is a boy who stands out in his appearance and behavior. He is thin and bony, a red head with light blue eyes. Jack is an independent thinker; he does not believe that there is a dangerous beast on the island. From the beginning of the novel, he does not like to follow rules of any kind but is still somewhat influenced by the society he had been a part of. “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages. We’re English and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right
Essay question: You are required to write a comparative essay. You should compare one aspect of the texts such as theme, conflict, character or relationship. The texts are ‘Lord of the Flies’ and ‘Animal Farm’.
The two books, Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm circle around the themes of power, leadership, law, disorder, good and evil. On a personal level, these themes come up in the way people relate to each other: How they interact, who becomes a follower, a manipulator, who takes responsibility, who becomes a victim and who a perpetrator. In the two books both Jack and Napoleon stick out as having so called leadership qualities.
Leadership, as shown in Golding's Lord of the flies, and Orwell's Animal Farm, deals with theme of human and animal nature. One of the central concerns in both novels are the conflicts that exist between living by rules, acting peacefully, following moral commands and valuing the good of the group against the instinct for power. In both books the characters that assume leadership do so by creating a common enemy, in Lord of the Flies it is the beast and in Animal Farm it is the “two legged” human being. “FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD...” (pg. 22) By establishing a prejudice the leaders give their followers a belief that provides them with a foothold. The authority of the leaders is therefore strengthened.
In Lord of the Flies, Jack is a boy who stands out in his appearance and behavior. He is thin and bony, a red head with light blue eyes. Jack is an independent thinker; he does not believe that there is a dangerous beast on the island. From the beginning of the novel, he does not like to follow rules of any kind but is still somewhat influenced by the society he had been a part of. “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages. We’re English and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right