Why Twelve Year Olds Aren’t Presidents
Humanity’s goal is advancement. Advancement in our technology, our quality of life, our intelligence. To foster these incredible advancements, it is a prerequisite that the government surrounding oneself is much more than simply adequate. The government, and governing officials, need to be made up of wisdom, knowledge, and justice as to cater to its citizens. However, in Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of preteen boys is left to govern themselves after their plane crashes. Despite their best efforts to form a suitable government, the chosen leaders are weak, slightly dimwitted, naive twelve year old boys with delusions of grandeur. Consequently, they develop into completely inadequate leaders, which ultimately makes forming a competent government impossible. The boys on the island in Golding’s Lord of the …show more content…
Soon, that person or area will start using their power for their personal goals rather than those of society, which leads to corruption and eventually destruction. The consequence of destruction is, as per Montesquieu’s ideas, for the society to decline into a despotism, where one leader has ultimate power and the commoners live in fear (Bok). Unfortunately, in the Lord of the Flies,when establishing his bootleg tribe, Jack fails to implement any form of separation of power and their society self destructs. After having established his tribe, Jack addresses other boys about joining it. He says, ¨If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I’ll let you join. Perhaps not” (Golding 140). Jack saying that he is the one person who can make a judgement if someone can join the tribe or not shows that his tribe clearly has no separation of power, as that would include someone with the capability to check his actions, specifically the inclusion of new tribe members. Furthermore, Montesquieu states a consequence of
Humanity’s goal is advancement. Advancement in our technology, our quality of life, our intelligence. To foster these incredible advancements, it is a prerequisite that the government surrounding oneself is much more than simply adequate. The government, and governing officials, need to be made up of wisdom, knowledge, and justice as to cater to its citizens. However, in Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of preteen boys is left to govern themselves after their plane crashes. Despite their best efforts to form a suitable government, the chosen leaders are weak, slightly dimwitted, naive twelve year old boys with delusions of grandeur. Consequently, they develop into completely inadequate leaders, which ultimately makes forming a competent government impossible. The boys on the island in Golding’s Lord of the …show more content…
Soon, that person or area will start using their power for their personal goals rather than those of society, which leads to corruption and eventually destruction. The consequence of destruction is, as per Montesquieu’s ideas, for the society to decline into a despotism, where one leader has ultimate power and the commoners live in fear (Bok). Unfortunately, in the Lord of the Flies,when establishing his bootleg tribe, Jack fails to implement any form of separation of power and their society self destructs. After having established his tribe, Jack addresses other boys about joining it. He says, ¨If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I’ll let you join. Perhaps not” (Golding 140). Jack saying that he is the one person who can make a judgement if someone can join the tribe or not shows that his tribe clearly has no separation of power, as that would include someone with the capability to check his actions, specifically the inclusion of new tribe members. Furthermore, Montesquieu states a consequence of