“His first words were a gasp‚ but audible. ‘-Calling an assembly’.” A good leader is someone who is fair‚ organized‚ can plan‚ has patience‚ and has stoicism. Ralph in Lord of the Flies by William Golding exemplifies these qualities of a leader. A leader is important because without them the group of boys may not have found each other in the beginning of the book and would not have worked together to make shelter and find food. Without a leader‚ assuming the boys still met‚ the group would have been
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The novel‚ “Lord of the Flies”‚ deals immensely with characterization and symbolism. William Golding packed his story with a great deal of literary color‚ making it alive and vivid to the reader. Golding’s use of symbolism is obvious throughout the entire novel. The character that stood out the most in the novel was Ralph‚ who was excellently developed by Golding as a leader. Golding made Ralph in to a round character by using heavy descriptions of him that almost made the reader think as if he
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Lord of The Flies When a group of British school boys land on a deserted island someone has to step up and lead. A leader should have many noble traits. In the book Ralph is elected leader‚ in the beginning he was not much of a standout but later in the book we found Ralph has great leadership skills: he tries to keep the peace‚ was stern when he needed to be‚ and held everyone accountable for their work. There are several instances in the story where Ralph‚ the leader‚ goes against the majority
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Lord of the Flies has many meanings to it that are represented through the characters and their feelings. When comparing the characters in the Lord of The Flies‚ you can see the obvious change in most of them from the beginning of the book to the end. The two main characters are Ralph‚ the protagonist and Jack‚ the antagonist. Ralph and Jack both have different qualities and beliefs that define each of them completely and at times make them both alike in many ways. They both represent what we are
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Civilization vs. Savagery William Golding’s‚ Lord of the Flies is a novel that displays the power and importance of the rules of civilization and its role in preventing humans from following their natural inclination toward savagery. This novel displays how the rules of civilization are overcome by savagery when rules and authority get displaced‚ and savagery starts to become inevitable. When the boys were first ‘placed’ on the island it was the boy’s original instinct to be civil
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book I read‚ Lord of the Flies‚ is a young boy named Ralph. He is athletic‚ charismatic‚ and a primary representation of order‚ civilization‚ and productive leadership in the novel. He is described as a rather large and muscular boy that could have been a ’Karate Kid’ as far as "width and heaviness of shoulder went". He is also described as having fair hair‚ but not much physical description is offered‚ otherwise. Being the main representation of democracy in the group of boys ‚ Ralph is cool and
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Through the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding there is a conflict between leader’s who do what is right against doing what the people want. At the beginning Ralph is elected as the leader of the island. Right away he does what he thinks is a necessity on the island‚set up a fire to get rescued and build shelter to be safe shelter. Jack does what he and the boys want and what others may think is fun‚ hunting. On the island there is a constant fear of “The beast” and Jack and Ralph have different
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rules. However‚ this is not reflected in Lord of the Flies where Golding believes that without law and order‚ the dark side in a boy would be fully manifested without control. Civilisation has no way of triumphing over savagery. This is due to several reasons. Savagery is innate within each and every one of us while moral behaviour is something that society tends to inculcate in us by force rather than a purely natural element of our human nature. Thus‚ savagery is more primal than our instinct towards
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Civilization vs. Savagery: An Exploration of Counterpoint in Lord of the Flies Counterpoint is a common literary device used by many authors in a variety of forms of literature. It gives the work contrast and interest as well as a diverse insight into two completely different ideas or opposites. The main counterpoint presented in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies would be the idea of civilization vs. savagery. This motif is presented throughout the novel. The idea that humans are constantly battling
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William Golding’s “Lord of the flies” is a novel about group of boys who survive a plane crash and land on uninhabited island‚ where they must do what they can to live. The situation the boys are in‚ forces them to act and think radically‚ to form their own system of rules and to make hard decisions without any influence of adults. It is extremely shocking how they organize their new society‚ how they treat each other and what results their actions bring. Two main characters‚ Ralph and Jake‚ at the
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