Ralph And Jack's Relationship In Lord Of The Flies
"Ralph and Jack, Walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate." What does Golding mean?
Through out William Golding's Lord of the Flies there is a constant struggle for leadership between Jack and Ralph. When Golding identifies the boys as "two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate" he highlights the key differences between the two characters and how they represent opposing modes of thinking. Ralph is a rational thinker and believes in a civilised society with "Rules, lots of rules" and that if they can obey this order they will be rescued. On the contrary Jack is aggressive, causes anarchy with in the island "bollocks to the rules!" and uses fear to manipulate the boys. Besides this …show more content…
He knows that "the queen has a map of these islands and knows where we could be" also that fire and smoke is used best to signal ships at a distance. This is what actually saves the stranded boys. As soon as Ralph is elected as chief, he concentrates all of his newly acquired authority to being rescued. He assembles a small group of boys to go on an “expedition” to see if they actually are on an island. “If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island, three of us will go on an expedition and find out.” This demonstrates that Ralph's qualities allow him to make decisions that benefit everyone. Whilst Ralph was leader he made shelters and called assemblies, this method of bringing civilisation to the island allowed the boys to remember what modern day society was like, and from then on can keep faith in themselves towards being rescued. When Ralph realises that "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away." he tries to keep his composure and control the group but the power of Jack takes over and the boys gradually loose their civility. Never once throughout the novel Lord of the flies, does Ralph become influenced or influence others towards savagery, but he doesn't harness the authority he needs to save the boys from
Through out William Golding's Lord of the Flies there is a constant struggle for leadership between Jack and Ralph. When Golding identifies the boys as "two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate" he highlights the key differences between the two characters and how they represent opposing modes of thinking. Ralph is a rational thinker and believes in a civilised society with "Rules, lots of rules" and that if they can obey this order they will be rescued. On the contrary Jack is aggressive, causes anarchy with in the island "bollocks to the rules!" and uses fear to manipulate the boys. Besides this …show more content…
He knows that "the queen has a map of these islands and knows where we could be" also that fire and smoke is used best to signal ships at a distance. This is what actually saves the stranded boys. As soon as Ralph is elected as chief, he concentrates all of his newly acquired authority to being rescued. He assembles a small group of boys to go on an “expedition” to see if they actually are on an island. “If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island, three of us will go on an expedition and find out.” This demonstrates that Ralph's qualities allow him to make decisions that benefit everyone. Whilst Ralph was leader he made shelters and called assemblies, this method of bringing civilisation to the island allowed the boys to remember what modern day society was like, and from then on can keep faith in themselves towards being rescued. When Ralph realises that "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away." he tries to keep his composure and control the group but the power of Jack takes over and the boys gradually loose their civility. Never once throughout the novel Lord of the flies, does Ralph become influenced or influence others towards savagery, but he doesn't harness the authority he needs to save the boys from