Bad Decision-Making In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Throughout the story, Jack becomes aggressive, having the urge to kill. In the text, it states, “I cut the pig’s throat” (Golding 69). This shows how Jack is proud to kill the pig, he is the only boy on the Island who is confident enough to kill, foreshadowing that he might even kill more than a pig. As the story goes on, Jack and Ralph now have their own groups and are both chiefs. Ralph cares more about surviving and getting off the Island, while Jack is more interested in hunting and having fun on the Island rather than worrying about surviving, this shows how immature and careless he is.

To the boys on the island hunting is a powerful, manly act, whoever is able to hunt is the one with all the power. Just like a dictator. Jack knows this and sees the opportunity to rise up the ranks, he states “We’ll get food,hunt. Catch things.until they fetch us” (pg. 1).

Ilana Gluzman Ms.Miller English II, Period 6 09 September 2015 Sometimes leadership takes years to learn, and other times it takes a few boys and an adventure. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Golding demonstrates how when faced with the necessity of survival, desperation can cause irrational decisions. Younger children these days tend to think that life is a little more exciting and adventurous without adults; however, this viewpoint soon transforms into something greater when the boys are stranded by themselves without any supervision and have to survive on their own. But in order to hold themselves together, the boys must develop new life skills, outlast fear of the unknown, and maintain order until they are rescued.

All of the boys on the island are members of the tribe, except for Ralph. They begin to neglect their original feelings and adopt the actions of Jack. However, it escalates too far and the tribe wants to hunt Ralph. After he is the only one left not following them, they form a unified, aggressive group, trying to use violence to capture him. The boys turn into a mob, not motivated by individual feelings, but by one common idea.

In the beginning, Jack appears as a strong leader and he is civilized. His innocence is strong and he is civil, because of the way he was raised. When Jack does not get his way he abandons the rest of the boys and starts his own tribe. Progressively, He slowly fades into a savage and changes his appearance and personality. In the end, Jack is a beast and he will do whatever he finds necessary to remain in power.

A leader to guide in Golding’s Lord of the flies One’s outer appearance can be prodigious but the inner talent can be all about the chaotic savagery and the desire for power. William Golding’s, The lord of the flies, is a gruesome story about a bundle of boys that are stranded on a neglected island. The antagonist, Jack, is an arrogant boy who is ruling the island by dictatorship. On the other hand, there is Ralph, the protagonist, who is ruling the island by democracy and by civility.

Jack convinces the boys that Simon really was the beast and tells them that the beast can take in many forms. He justifies their savage actions of ripping apart a young boy.

The longer the boys were stranded on the island, the more they began the drive for power. Jack taking the role of authority, manipulating the boys as time goes on. Keeping his word of providing meat to those who join him yet “He enjoys the kill not because it will feed the boys, but because he”...feels powerful. " Jacks character represents the corruption found within power.

In Lord of the Flies, William Golding crafts a story of a group of ordinary British schoolboys that are stranded on an island in order to investigate how humans can return to their primal state if they are left without order to bind them. Left without the leadership and guidance of their parents, they attempt to mimic the ordered and civilized society that they had come from, but slowly, they succumb to their primitive desires and impulses, leading them descend into savagery. Throughout this elaborate work, Golding forges a political allegory that demonstrates how the defects in human nature contribute to the downfall of a democracy and allow people to be lured into a totalitarian regime or anarchy.

Mia Zomok Keenan R. L. Schultz. English 10 19, March 2024 Leadership in ‘The Lord of the Flies’. Have you ever wondered, what makes a civilization run? Is it the leader, the rules, the enforcers? Well after reading the novel The Lord of the Flies we can see the different forms of leadership, civilians, enforcers, and rules that make or break a civilization.

Jack and the boys are in a primal state of rage, where their rage gets directed at their surroundings. Driven by rage, the boys attack the ‘beast’, but blinded by their immense anger they are unable to realize that the beast is Simon. Controlled by the flight or fight response created by their rage, the boys are not able to critically think about what they are doing and the consequences of their actions. The beast is a symbol of how rage is inherent in human nature because it is fictional and the boys were never taught the primal emotions that they were experiencing on the island. Through the process of chanting and performing rituals for the beast, such as placing a pig head on a stake and announcing, “This head is for the beast.

The first time he spots a pig on the island he is hesitant to kill it because he still is in a “civilized” mindset. Eventually he builds up the courage to kill a pig. After living on the island for sometime and killing multiple pigs, hunting becomes a form of entertainment for Jack, “The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her […]

During the duration of their time on the island the boy’s connection with humanity declined to a level to which they dehumanized themselves completely. Jack the opposing leader, presents another problem with his bloodlust. His unceasing hunger for a kill keeps him oblivious to the fire and the possibility of being rescued. His actions distract the others from the main goal which is to be rescued. Ralph and Piggy must work together to try and maintain the little order that is left.

What Simon knows, and the rest have yet to understand, is the significance of Jack and his gang's evilness and savagery. When he says "...maybe it's only us that we're afraid of” he is trying to explain that maybe everyone knows that there isn’t a beast, but it’s easier to fear the beast than it is to face the reality that they are all actually afraid of each other. Although Simon is very shy he does the best he can to try and convince the boys that they do not need to fear the beast. Simon understands that although Jack did not make up the beast, he continues to draw attention to the beast in order to make the members of his hunters fearful. By doing this, Jack asserts his power by offering his protection from the beast, therefore making him a better leader than Ralph in the eyes of the children. Jack and Ralph are

Jack's transition puts him on a collision course with Ralph's elected authority, and when he decides to leave the tribe, he bribes the boy’s with the promises of meat, play, and freedom. This in return, awards him with the majority of the boy’s following him. They soon embrace Jack’s savage ways, which only motivates Jack to take his power even further. He tortured and threatened the boy’s that did not join his tribe, and brainwashes the ones that were already in his tribe to be the torturers. These actions of Jack’s just prove that he is evil and savage by nature, and when he is given power it only amplifies his characteristics, making him even more vicious.