(Golding 82). Jack publicly makes fun of the littluns. Jack disrespects the other boys' feelings, making them feel inferior and acting as if their fears are a sign of weakness. The younger boys' feelings of inferiority force them to follow Jack's orders, for fear of being punished or threatened if they go against his ideas. Jack's second anarchist method of leadership is made up of his passion for brutal hunting.
Ineffective leadership, in which the right balance of physical, social, and moral aspects are taken into poor perspective, is developed through the irresponsible actions of Ralph, the corrupted view of Jack, and the weakness of Piggy. The irresponsible actions of Ralph contribute to the development of ineffective leadership, that contains the physical, social, and moral aspects. Ralph shows that he is irresponsible when he fails to enforce his rules among the tribe, this is evident when the boys do not help out in building the shelters and forget to keep the fire going. As Ralph becomes chief, he relies much more on the knowledge of Piggy to generate ideas to maintain a controlled society. “We can use this to call the others.
His credibility was also shown by how he was older than a lot of the children, and then eventually elected as leader. His use of Logos was shown when he said that fire and shelters should be built in order to survive and get rescued, and that a leader should be elected. Both of these methods of persuasion proved to be unsuccessful because he never acknowledged how tedious the work of building shelters and maintaining a fire would be. Ralph had his eyes on the prize, but didn’t have camaraderie to go with it or give them a sense of safety and security. For example, when Ralph told them to build
In the Lord of the Flies, Jack has been trying to destroy Ralph since chapter 1 because he wanted power. “He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief” (112). Jack is telling the boys that Ralph is a coward and doesn’t deserve being leader.
ESSAY- Is Ralph purely evil or purely good? Or does he just play a pivotal role as a character? In the novel Lord of the Flies, Ralph is a character that can be viewed as a morally ambiguous boy that loses his innocence and learns to have faith and believe in the future even when all chances are frail, throughout the novel you get a chance to experience Ralph’s good qualities and bad, you get see him as a character with a pivotal role and learn how his role as an ambiguous character contributes to the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Ralph has many conflicts, as he puts himself up, he thinks that since his smarter he needs all authority, and since all the other boys vote him as captain he feels superior, he then tries to act as if he’s better then Piggy, but instead by the end his proven wrong. He then has to learn from both internal and external conflicts that occur at and make him into a better person, into a person that becomes a loyal friend, one that wants to save himself and the other boys, even though they don’t want to listen to him, everything he does he wants to save them, but make them into better boys, not act like savages.
Stand still.’ This shows he is very demanding and intimidating. One of his first words to the boys are ‘I ought to be chief’ this shows he thinks he is the best and an unfair way of choosing, this is a bad first impression to make to the rest of the boys. Throughout the book Jack is only interested in hunting. It is the only thing he wants to do, this shows
Jack does not like Piggy because he supports and stands by Ralph. He also hurts Piggy mentally and physically by calling him names,
Throughout their stay on the island, Jack demonized Ralph, making him look like a dictator, and slowly drilling into the heads of the kids that he was the bad guy, despite the fact that the little progress made was really Jack’s fault. Also, Ralph didn’t really make it clear enough to the kids that what Jack was doing was wrong – most kids thought that they were just having harmless fun, but he didn’t make them see that (especially when Jack let the fire go out) if they sided with Jack then they would never get off the island. Jack may have been a powerful dictator, but he was also a coward – he couldn’t stand up to Ralph himself until he had the technological advantage of a spear, and the military advantage of army size over him – only in the end, when he literally had the power to burn down the island, did he dare to face Ralph’s moral influence head on. Ralph should’ve taken advantage of this and acted
Later, he describes himself as "Deformed, unfinished, sent before his time into this breathing world, scarce half made up." The deformity, which has been shown to have been exaggerated or even deliberately faked in portraits of Richard III, is given as the source of his evil ways. He says that as he "cannot prove a lover" he is "determined to be a villain." While everybody makes fun of Richard, and thinks that he is not able to achieve anything, he shows everyone that even though he is handicapped, he can achieve the highest power, to be King. Richard overcompensates his inferiority.
Throughout the majority of the novel it is obvious to see that Ralph is not the rightful leader, and that Jack should be the leader as he has a strong sense of control over the island but does not have the same agenda when it comes to being rescued as he does not see the importance in the fire, whereas Ralph does, “You let the fire out.” This shows Ralph to understand that to escape from the island the boys need to create a signal fire for other ships. Jack is the apparent rightful leader, but the one that shows the intelligence and is the main reason to why Ralph became chief is Piggy, as from the start he understands the severity of the situation “We may stay here till we die.” Piggy’s intelligence is shown through the