Ralph Lord Of The Flies Leader Analysis

In every group survival story or TV show there is always a character on the show or the book who shows the true character traits of a leader and there is always the antagonist who is the opposite of the leader mainly always looking to control everyone and to have power. In the Lord of the Flies novel the character who is showing the qualities of a leader would be Ralph. The adversary of Ralph would be Jack who shows throughout the novel that he wants to have complete control over the group of boys. What a true leader is, is someone who can have an influence on another group of people for the greater good, or you could say “real leadership is when everyone else feels in charge.” For example an effective leader who that would be living in our society would be …….. …show more content…
The reason why Ralph represents the leader is because one thing is that he got elected out of the group of boys to be in charge, and another reason being that he wants everybody on the island to survive with him, while Jack is the kind of character who wants to be the boss of the group and wants to be able to control the boys. For example when Ralph is in charge he wanted the group to build huts so that they could have shelter on the island, and an example of Jack being a poor leader is when he went with the other group of hunters and went killing the pigs on the island as if it was a sport just for the killing of the pigs, Jack was even the one who said “Get him it’s the beast!” which was when Simon went into the middle of the group and got killed by all of the boys by accident. Another example of when Jack was very pitiful was when he stole the glasses from Piggy without telling him, so when Piggy went to get his glasses from jack, Roger then rolled down the boulder on to him which then killed