The Different Leaderships of Lord of the Flies

The different leaderships of “Lord of the Flies”

The plane crashes, there are no adults, no people, just you alone. You find another person and are very relieved. You use a shell to summon the rest of the people on the Island. They first thing you find you need to do is build a leadership. You pick a leader built of democracy. It starts out well but then you find there is more than one type of leadership on the Island and some of your opinions change. There were many different types of leadership in The Lord of the Flies written by William Golding. Having Jack, Ralph and Piggy in mind this paper is going to show you that there were three main differences of the leadership in Lord of the Flies.

One type of leadership was Jack’s version. His version involves being bossy, stubborn and violent. He is so use to being in charge, being the popular boy at school, that he doesn’t like the change which makes him bossy. He tries to control the group more than he has been trying to help. He even tries to claim himself leader even though he was not voted and has done nothing to help the other people on the Island. He only likes and tries to help the people who agree with him, his “followers”, who are willing to do anything even if it means not getting off the Island. Also he is stubborn. Even though everyone agreed on the conch deciding who talks, he doesn’t care as long because he wants to talk. Even when people tell him to shut up. No matter what the orders or rules are he doesn’t care. Even when everyone agrees that they should do something but he won’t do it just because he doesn’t want to. Last, he is a violent leader. Page 94 even states, “... some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence…” When people don’t follow the rules he wants...

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... he is not afraid of killing and hunt than help the kids survive and not be scared. Last, there is his devotion. on page 88 it shows that even though he was naked he ran and scraps himself to go set the fire again. Even while he is dripping with blood, the only thing on his mind is rekindling the fire to send a signal that they are trapped on the Island.

“Styles are tailor made to different situations. Different leaders must have their own styles and these styles must be able to adapt to different people and situations.” ― John Ng. The only problem with the three different types of leadership on the Island is that they are not willing to change to fit the situation that they are in, which was why it was so hard for them to find one style of leadership that would have worked for everyone. Well, as you can now see there were three main leaderships on the Island.