When the teachers leaves the classroom and it’s just left with a room full of students, rules are broken, pencils fly, kids begin to run around, and in the matter of seconds the room is filled loud voices beaming from the children. Whenever there is a time when it is just kids in a room and no adults, it gets hectic very fast and most of the time turns into utter chaos. What do people do in a time of chaos? Some people become leaders and others become followers. In the book the Lord of the Flies the kids are faced with struggling to survive, and what roles they will be playing as they are on the island. The kids desire for popularity and power gets a little out of hand and the kids feel peer pressure to submit to these power crazed children …show more content…
At one point in the story Jack says “Conch! Conch! We don’t need the conch anymore, we know who ought to say things” This quote really tells us that Jack’s pride has overtaken him and the idea of the kids submitting to him and calling him “chief.” has gone to his head. Jack has become very popular by force and by the kids feeling peer pressured to join Jack’s tribe and be hunters, or else they might be killed by the rest of the tribe. Everyone on the tribe is scared to step up to Jack because the people on his tribe are beginning to get used to the violent acts savagery that have been committed on the island so far. The kids start to let the fear of man overtake them and give into the peer pressure of joining Jack’s tribe because there isn’t really another option. By the kids giving into the peer pressure to follow the “popular” leader, Jack, they are ultimately giving Jack more power so he can do whatever he wants with the support of others who agreed to be apart of the tribe. This theme reaches its climax at the end of the story when it is literally Jack’s whole tribe, which basically consists of all the kids on the island, against Ralph. In the end, Ralph was the only one who didn’t give into the peer pressure to join Jack’s tribe, and ultimately he was rewarded for it because he got what he wanted, to be rescued. Now just because he didn’t give into peer pressure doesn’t mean you automatically get rewarded. I feel that giving Ralph his desire was William Golding’s way of rewarding Ralph for not giving into being apart of Jack's
That’s why if I had to pick between Ralph and Jack it would be Ralph because he is a caring person. Ralph overall really tried his best to be together as a team and a family. So the point of this is to tell you that Ralphs motivation was to find help to get off the island he wanted to keep people safe so that they would all help and comfort each other. The tragedies were hard but Ralph did contribute even when he was upset he still showed effort. Oh and all the deaths Ralph was speechless he could not have prevented it even if he wanted to and we know he really wanted to.
Ralph gives everyone on the island equal rights and freedoms. Ralph makes everyone feel worthy but Jack makes almost everyone feel useless. Firstly, Ralph lets everyone on the island have a say. They can express their opinion or idea as long as they have the conch. “ I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak,” (Golding 31) says Ralph during an assembly. He is giving everyone an equal chance to talk. On the other hand, Jack just wants the “important” people to talk. Jack says to piggy, ” Who cares about what you believe-fatty,” (97). This shows that Jack doesn’t want Piggy to talk and that is not fair. Nextly, Ralph also assigns everyone equal work and does a lot of work himself. Ralph builds the huts with Simon and he also assigned different people times to watch the fire. Ralph is also very caring towards the lilun’s. He gives them positive motivation towards getting rescued while Jack just ignores them. Therefore, Ralph makes everyone feel worthy by listening to their opinions and assigning equal work among the boys unlike Jack.
Golding has made the two boys’ act similar at the beginning of the novel to show us how ‘normal’ they are. This demonstrates Golding’s view that absolutely anyone can be over ruled by power and become savage (like Jack) when civilisation collapses. After this incident, we can see a continual conflict between Ralph and Jack. We can see this when Jack proclaims that Ralph, “Isn’t a proper chief.” Golding is trying to show us that this conflict is very similar to the conflict between human inner barbarism and the living influence of reason.
... Ralph has proven to have a much better understanding of people and their needs and this makes him a much better leader than Jack. With Ralph's understanding of the need for order and rules, he improves the condition where the boys are living in. Jack's condition was horrible. Also, Jack treated the boys very badly and like he better. Ralph, on the other hand treated the boys all equally and with respect. Ralph's priority to get off the island shows his wisdom and ability to make good decisions. Although Jack was popular on the island for the short amount of time the boys were there, he would not have been popular for much longer. He does not have any of the qualities that a good leader should have and turned himself and the rest of the boys into complete losers. Jack's plan would have soon faded but if Ralph had become leader, his wisdom would last much longer.
The ability for a society to function depends largely on the amount of individuality or uniformity the society contains. Throughout history, many different leaders have tried various approaches to the structure of the society under their rulings. Popular examples include socialism in the USSR, communism in North Korea, and capitalism in the United States. All of the previously listed examples have a similarity: they involve changes in the involvement of people in their community. For example, communism consists of all people being treated equally. Capitalism, on the other hand, focuses on not conforming individuals to be exactly like each other. In Aldous Huxley’s 1930s novel Brave New World and William Golding’s 1950s novel Lord of the Flies
Most children are obedient and well-behaved when they are supervised by adults, but how would they be if they are left to themselves? In the novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of boys, all under the age of thirteen, are stranded on an island and left unsupervised. At first, the boys are innocent and civilized, but as time goes by, they turn into savages. The children in this novel turned into savages because of peer pressure, their desire have fun, and the fear and chaos that evokes from children when they are left unsupervised.
Jack ruled with, what we call today, an “Iron Fist”. Golding shows this by telling how Jack ruled, how he’d beat those who didn’t obey him and how he was violent, greedy, and self-absorbed. He rolled a boulder down the mountain the killed Piggy and organized a party to mutilate Ralph. By this point in the story, he was so infatuated with power that he didn’t care about being rescued and that he was willing to spend the rest of his life on that island just to be the leader and ruler of all everyone. This is Golding’s way of showing how Jack had become so obsessed with power that he would kill anyone who said he was unfit for it and have a public “example” to show what would happen to those who opposed and threatened his
Golding shows the ways Ralph handles things in Chapter 2 when all the boys keep talking at once it states, “The meeting hummed and was silent. ‘And another thing. We can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school.” He held the conch before his face and glanced round the mouth. ‘Then I’ll give him the conch.’”(Pg.33) Golding is basically trying to establish that Ralph represents a democracy in this novel because he is the one that tries to let everyone speak. A democracy like America, lets everybody say what they want and are free to do some things. Another example would be in Chapter 11 when Ralph and Jack are fighting it states, “‘See? See? That’s what you’ll get! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone-’ He ran forward, stooping. ‘I’m chief!’ Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph.”(Pg.181) Golding is establishing that Jack represents totalitarianism and dictatorship; he uses fear and violence to get what he wants throughout the whole novel. We have seen lots of people who act like Jack in the real world, for example: Hitler; Jack lured his prey and then used violence to finally capture the people, just like Hitler. Golding does not only use the older boys to represent the people with power in society, but he also uses items that the boys use in the story to represent other
Ralph is one of the few boys who realize that the only way to survive is through peace and order. Because he summons the boys at the beginning of the novel with the conch he and Piggy find, they look upon him as the most responsible of the boys and elect him as a chief over the humiliated Jack. Ralph creates a stable and peaceful society for the children to live; this significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society.
First, Jack is embarrassed and rude when Ralph wins the vote for chief. As Ralph counts the votes Jack immediately thinks that he is going to win, but when Ralph wins he tries to change his mind and becomes embarrassed. After the vote is counted, ”the freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification. He started up, then changed his mind and sat down as the air rang”(23). Jack is self absorbed and believes he will, with no problem, win the vote of chief, and does not look at Ralph as an equal but as less than himself. This is extremely rude and selfish of Jack. Jack wanted the outcome of being chief, and when he is waiting he is selfish and does not look at ralph with respect. Jack is selfish driving him to not give Ralph equal respect. Next, Jack splits the boys in half to create his own tribe. The tribe is talking to their chief by which the face paint and talk of blushing is identified as Jack Merridew. He is now the chief of his tribe. As they describe the chief, “The chief's blush was hidden by the white and red clay. Into his uncertain silence the tribe spilled their murmur once more. Then the chief held up his hand”(161). Jack knows it is wrong to split tribes and not work together, but his want for the power over the other boys drives him to act selfishly. Jack desires to be the chief of all the boys, and this makes him split from Ralph’s power. This is evil because he knows it will only create issues. Finally, Jack attempts to hunt and kill Ralph. Sam and Eric are talking to Ralph about what Jack is doing to find him. The lengths Jack is willing to go to and the plan on how. As Eric speaks to Ralph, “we’re going to spread out in a line across the island-” “we’re going forward from this end” “-until we find you.” “And the chief- they’re both-” “-terrors-”(189). The want to be the only leader drives Jack to search Ralph down and kill him. Killing a fellow boy is evil. The
In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, bullying is displayed greatly through the teenagers minds. Piggy is by far the most bullied though because of his characteristics. He is short, chubby, wears glasses and by context a “nerd.” Jack takes any opportunity possible to bully him. Throughout the book the kids would get in arguments and find any way to make an insult towards the other person. Jack and Ralph were the most argumentative people because their ideas were always different towards the end of the book. Since Ralph was voted the leader of the group at the start of the book by his fellow classmates that also were stranded on the island, Jack has had a problem with him. Piggy helped Ralph come up with his ideas and make the
When Jack loses the election to become chief to Ralph, it becomes apparent that Jack is schismatic and wholeheartedly intends to act against Ralph’s actions and decisions. From small nuances such as churlish remarks to fights, it is obvious that Jack intends to eventually either dethrone Ralph or form his own tribe. In one instance, Ralph assigns Jack a very simplistic task of watching the fire on the mountain, yet Jack decides that his appetence for blood and meat is more important than fulfilling his duty to the fire. Disobeying Ralph’s orders, Jack defects from his post to hunt and does not attempt to have another person tend the fire in his absence. Because of Jack’s actions, Ralph verbally scolds Jack and states to Jack, “You talk. But you can’t even build hut...
Ralph shows that he has a better understanding of the boys than Jack. He knows that the boys need some sort of order on the island in order for them to survive. He starts a simple form of government and sets a few rules for them. Even though they don’t last very long, the fact that he tried to help the group is what makes him a better leader. Ralph’s wisdom and ability to look toward the future also has an advantage over Jack. He has a sense to keep his focus on getting off the island. When the fire goes out, Ralph gets upset because the chance to be rescued was gone as well. Ralph enforces his role of leadership as he gives the boys a sense of stability of an authority figure. He keeps the boys in pretty good order at the meeting by making a rule that they can only speak if they have the conch. Ralph knows that the littleuns are afraid and they need shelter to feel more secure. They work together for a while, but as the time goes on the smaller boys want to go play. They slowly lose all their help until Simon and Ralph are the only ones left to work on them. Ralph knows that this is a necessity and keeps bringing it up at the meetings. Jack, on the other hand, is doing nothing but causing chaos.
“I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.” No matter how much you’ve got to bring to the table, society will always find a way to put you down and aim for something else whether that something is worst or better than what you have to offer. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding has shown this external conflict several times throughout the story with characters such as Ralph and piggy. The conflict of character vs. society is present in these characters: Ralph, the elected chief of the group of British schoolboys is constantly having to remind the group of the bigger picture; Piggy, ultimately the brain of the
In books like Lord of the Flies and Othello, the main characters go through many personal changes and make many decisions that change their fate and that are based on conforming or not. Ralph’s actions throughout his journey show that individuality helped him make the right decision, while Othello shows that conformity lead him to making the wrong decision. In Lord of the Flies, two different clans are very apparent; the ‘good’ clan with Ralph, Piggy, and others, and the ‘bad’ clan with Jack and all of the other boys. Towards the end of the book, Jack’s clan “fought their way through” Ralph’s camp in order to “ [get] [their] fire” (Golding 167) (Golding 169). While Ralph could have conformed to this violence, he stayed with his individuality