Leadership Styles In Lord Of The Flies

In William Golding’s Nobel Prize winning, Lord of the Flies, Golding creates two characters that seem to become complete polar opposites as the novel progresses. The novel depicts a group of kids attempting to survive on an island that’s on the brink of a new world war. After learning of a “beastie”, order begins to break on the island and terror ensues. The island begins to break in two as the blood of pig and human spills, and trust between everyone starts to crumble. Two kids on the island, Jack and Ralph, cause this crumbling to occur. Jack, the choir leader, creates the tension between the two after he leaves a fire to go hunt while a ship passes and the fire goes out. The apathy between Ralph, the main character, and Jack causes murders
For Jack, power is everything – you can even see this at the start of the novel after he howls “Choir! Stand still!” (Golding 20), and commands them what to do. From the power to his blood hungry side, it’s made quite clear that he is like some kind of dictator. Ralph, on the other hand, wants a civilized society where everyone helps each other out, which never happens due to the savage behavior of Jack. Since Ralph got the votes to become the chief at the start of the novel, Jack knew he had to become the leader, like he was with the choir, by any means possible. The way that he did so was by spitting propaganda and brain washing the kids into making him the chief, which causes everyone to go crazy about the “beast.” This in turn makes Simon appear like the creature when he comes out of the jungle and all the kids propel strikes toward him, which results in his death. Following that night, Ralph and Piggy are the only ones that show sympathy, which ultimately gets them shunned from now what had become Jack’s tribe. After that separation, there is only “one” thing that Jack can do with the outcasts – eradicate them. After Jack murders Piggy, he puts the Jungle in an inferno, which causes Ralph to be in the open. However, at the same time, it causes them to all be safe because of a marine officer. Every disastrous situation, from the moment Ralph got the votes to become the chief, was due to Jack’s desire for power. The detest between the two made it Jack’s number one priority to not only become the chief, but to exterminate Ralph off of the Island. Overall, the whole novel revolves around the enmity between Jack and Ralph and the dissimilar qualities that they possess. If they had been akin, there would have been less causalities in the process, but there also may not have been a rescue. The tyranny of Jack and the democracy of Ralph cause one another to separate and forces