Leadership And Order In Lord Of The Flies Essay

A world without order will lead to disaster! Humans need order to help guide them into the right path. In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, he uses symbolism to give us a hint of the savageness in all humans, civilized or not. In this book, boys are stuck on an island. While they were trying to make a structure of traditions they had at their home, the boys voted Ralph to lead. Jack wanted to lead, so over time, he persuaded the other boys from structure and reason to the savage mindset. This caused a separation between the boys and bloodshed. The conch is very important in the book because it represents leadership and order until, later on in the book when the conch shell’s authority weakened and nobody listened to the conch anymore, which shows how humans naturally dislike being told what to do and when to do it.

In the beginning, the conch shell signifies leadership and order in this book.

Ralph and Piggy found the conch shell on the beach in the beginning of the book and was used to call the boys together after the plane crash that separated them. The conch governs the boys’ gatherings by giving the boy who holds the shell, the right to speak. The conch shell represents leadership, because it reads, “...Ralph!”...“Let him be chief with the trumpet-thing.”...“I’m chief ...”(Golding 22-23). Ralph was holding the conch during the vote. The conch gave Ralph the power of leadership while he held it, because without the shell, he wouldn’t have been chosen to be the chief . The conch shell also represents order, because Ralph says, “I'll give the conch to the next person to speak”(Golding 51), and then Piggy says, “I got the conch" (Golding 51), said Piggy indignantly. "You let me speak!", Ralph and Piggy both held the conch at separate times, but were both given the power to speak by the shell. The conch developed order with a fair leader, civilized rules, and equal

rights.

In the middle and end, the conch shell developed into a symbol that faces savagery of the boys and reveals how humans naturally dislike being told what to do and when to do it. The conch developed into a symbol that faces savagery of the boys, it reads, “You haven’t got the conch!” “Piggy held up the shell. “Yes, laugh. Go on laugh”...“I got the conch”(171). Piggy is holding up the shell to show Jack the one thing that he doesn’t possess. Humans naturally dislike being told what do and when to do it, because the boys laughed at Piggy even though he held the conch, which shows how the boys didn’t care about the conch’s rules any longer.

Finally, the conch was very important in this book because it represented leadership and order, until later on when the conch shell’s authority was weakened by savagery which supports Golding’s overall message of how humans naturally dislike being told what to do and when to do it. Body Paragraph #1: The conch gave Ralph the power of leadership while he held it, because without the conch, he wouldn’t have been chosen to be the chief . The conch developed order with a fair leader, civilized rules, and equal rights. Body Paragraph#2: The conch shell develops into a symbol that faces savagery of the boys. A world without order ,will lead to disaster! Humans need order to help guide them into the right path, because all humans want their own way.