Lord Of The Flies Leadership Analysis

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Lord of the flies written by William Golding is a book about a group of boys who was on an unknown island by themselves. In this book, Golding display Jack as a powerful person but in my opinion, he’s not a good leader.
A good leader is a person who is good at solving problems, communicating and listening well, respect other people and having empathy towards the others but we can clearly see that Jack doesn’t have any of those soft skills above. Living on an unknown island on their own, Jack’s priority is completely different from Ralph’s priority. Ralph who is a natural leader puts the member’s safety at first place and he’s trying to create a society on the island while Jack’s priority is hunting and getting meat.
Firstly, Jack’s poor leadership …show more content…

This action shows no empathy and violence. Arguably, there are some readers saying that it’s not a bad thing to do because in that situation, the boys need meat to survive and Jack is just doing his job as a hunter through hunting pigs and provides meat for the whole group. Without him, the kids perhaps would not have meat to eat at all because they’re either don’t know how to kill pigs or they felt sorry for doing such an evil action but Jack is different from them. He likes killing and it’s not just simply for meat. He thinks that it’s fun, interesting and thrilling when hunting and seeing blood. He even gets hunting to be the job of the choir. This shows that he’s violence and aggressive and have no empathy. We know this because when the other kids talk about things they like on this island, Jack only cares about hunting for example he said “All the same you need an army-for hunting. Hunting pigs-” on page 35 and “We’re going to hunt pigs and get meat for everyone” on page 40. It makes the reader feels that he’s selfish because he’s only cares about what he’s interest in while things that these boys actually need at that moment is a society with a good leader to save them from this island. It’s clear that he would be the worst leader on the island and in the end it may lead to where the boys got hurt or even worse that they can never return

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