Leadership is one of the few traits that can separate one person from another, a leader or a follower. There are two kinds of leaders, one that will create a successful civilized society or, one that will turn a society completely upside down. When given the choice on how to lead a society, there are two choices, lead with kindness or lead through fear. In the book Lord of The Flies you can see the two types of leaders in Ralph, who creates a successful society with kindness, or Jack, who makes a corrupted society with fear. As the book goes on, yousee how effective each type of leadership can be, and that leading with fear is more effective than leading with kindness.
Ralph is the protagonist of the book, so it only would make sense if …show more content…
The first example of Jack taking control with fear is in the first chapter. “Choir! Stand Still!” (20). Without second thought or arguing against him, the choir kids do exactly as he says. This delivers a message to the reader, that already, Jack is going to be already and has power of some of the characters in the book. This event cause a snowball effect to occur causing Jack to seek for additional power to the power he already possess. Jack has more power than at the beach only one chapter later. “All at once the crowd swayed to the island and gone-following Jack,” (38). At this point Jack has gained more power, and will continue the hunt until he has complete power of the island. He does not have complete power yet cause he will lose some people back to Ralph later on. One of the best examples of Jack leading through fear of the island occurs on page seventy four. “I painted my face- I stole up. Now you eat-all of you,”(74). Simon is upset that they had to kill in order to have food to eat. Enraged by this, Jack takes it as if it is an insult to his kill. Jack then demands that the and the other eat the meat from the kill. In this part, the group is frightened by how Jack currently is. This is the first time Jack is seen as a savage in the book, and when Jack acts like a savage, the group is more scared of him and will listen to him more than in his …show more content…
Jack is usually the one who leads through fear, but in this case, Ralph unknowingly leads through fear for a brief moment. “I was chief, and you were going to do what I said,” (70). Ralph realizes he has lost power over some of the island, and wants to keep what he still has. If he shows that he can lead through fear, he can still keep some power, like Jack when he is less civilized, the island will more likely listen to him. When Jack is not being civilized and has almost complete power, he can do whatever he wants. In chapter nine Jack manages to turn the whole island against Simon and kill him. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (152). Jack convinces them that Simon was the beast, you can see that in the groups chant. Usually they would say “Cut her throat! Spill her blood” but this time they changed the her to a his, which means they knew the victim of the attack was a male, not a female.This is how powerful Jack could have became during the book. Even when Jack did not directly have power in book, he indirectly had power. “Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority,” (182). In this scenario, Roger is about to torture Samneric, so Roger has control of the twins, and they twins fear Roger. Since Jack is in charge of Roger, then he is indirectly incharge of Samneric, and Samneric are indirectly afraid of
Ralph is the protagonist of the book, so it only would make sense if …show more content…
The first example of Jack taking control with fear is in the first chapter. “Choir! Stand Still!” (20). Without second thought or arguing against him, the choir kids do exactly as he says. This delivers a message to the reader, that already, Jack is going to be already and has power of some of the characters in the book. This event cause a snowball effect to occur causing Jack to seek for additional power to the power he already possess. Jack has more power than at the beach only one chapter later. “All at once the crowd swayed to the island and gone-following Jack,” (38). At this point Jack has gained more power, and will continue the hunt until he has complete power of the island. He does not have complete power yet cause he will lose some people back to Ralph later on. One of the best examples of Jack leading through fear of the island occurs on page seventy four. “I painted my face- I stole up. Now you eat-all of you,”(74). Simon is upset that they had to kill in order to have food to eat. Enraged by this, Jack takes it as if it is an insult to his kill. Jack then demands that the and the other eat the meat from the kill. In this part, the group is frightened by how Jack currently is. This is the first time Jack is seen as a savage in the book, and when Jack acts like a savage, the group is more scared of him and will listen to him more than in his …show more content…
Jack is usually the one who leads through fear, but in this case, Ralph unknowingly leads through fear for a brief moment. “I was chief, and you were going to do what I said,” (70). Ralph realizes he has lost power over some of the island, and wants to keep what he still has. If he shows that he can lead through fear, he can still keep some power, like Jack when he is less civilized, the island will more likely listen to him. When Jack is not being civilized and has almost complete power, he can do whatever he wants. In chapter nine Jack manages to turn the whole island against Simon and kill him. “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” (152). Jack convinces them that Simon was the beast, you can see that in the groups chant. Usually they would say “Cut her throat! Spill her blood” but this time they changed the her to a his, which means they knew the victim of the attack was a male, not a female.This is how powerful Jack could have became during the book. Even when Jack did not directly have power in book, he indirectly had power. “Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority,” (182). In this scenario, Roger is about to torture Samneric, so Roger has control of the twins, and they twins fear Roger. Since Jack is in charge of Roger, then he is indirectly incharge of Samneric, and Samneric are indirectly afraid of