Leadership In Lord Of The Flies

To be a great leader you have to be intelligent and that is Piggy’s strongest quality. Piggy demonstrates his intelligence in various times throughout the novel. One of the events is with moving the fire. Everyone was terrified of “the beast” that was on the top of the mountain near the fire. The boys gave up but piggy stayed determined he suggest they move the fire by the campsite. He also recognizes that the conch can be used to form unity and organization. Piggy knows

When Piggy dies to a big rock, so does the conch and his glasses. 'The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.' pg. 222 With the conch being destroyed it means there is no order left on the island. With Piggy's glasses being shattered it means that the group have to work harder to light a fire and get saved. Also with Piggy being gone there is no sense left on the

Without Piggy’s glasses the boys would not have any other way to start the fire. Golding considers Piggy as the brain of the group because he came up with all the ideas. Jack would tend to torture Piggy and not listen to anything he had to say, but the conch was what gave Piggy a chance to get his opinions across at the meetings. Ralph and Piggy were the only ones that were coming up with ideas to be rescued off the island while the other boys played around. The boys would take Piggy’s glasses because they knew Piggy was scared to get them back. When Ralph said that he did not want to lead the group anymore Piggy was upset because he knew if Jack took over he was going to torture him even more. All Piggy wanted was to find ways to be rescued

Piggy represents the beach, the beach is one of the locations in the setting. It is important because it is where all the boy consider it home for as long they are stranded on the island. Piggy also represents children and society. He represents children by acting as an adult to the littluns while they are stranded on this island and using the knowledge his auntie has told him and now using it to take care of the children. “We can use this to call the others.

Never mind what makes that sense. The conch doesn't count at this end of the Island--”(pg.17). In this quote it shows how they chose to ignore Piggy's idea because they thought it was nonsense. They choose to ignore Piggy because they think he's stupid, even though he's the smartest boy on the island. Later on, Piggy still chooses to share his ideas with the other boys since he had the conch.

He wanted to make sure that everyone was going to be safe. In addition, Piggy's emotions validates how he tries to make the best out of a situation. As a bad situation occurred, Piggy tried his best to help Ralph cope with it. An example of this is, “‘It was an accident,’ said Piggy suddenly. ‘That’s what it is.

In Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Piggy symbolizes civilization and order amongst the unbridled boys, whose behavior he tries to constrain, which ultimately leads to his demise and the end of innocence among the boys. In the novel, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Piggy seeks attention and validation from the others on the island. In the beginning, Piggy is described as being overweight, having glasses, and being asthmatic. When the plane is gunned down with all the schoolboys, they gather together after Piggy suggests that Ralph should blow the conch. Because of this suggestion, Ralph later becomes the leader and rules that whoever holds the conch has the power to speak.

In the words of William Shakespeare, “uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, many of the characters are faced with the responsibility of authority. Throughout the events of the novel, Ralph tries to keep his power. Jack works to gain power and the role of chief. Piggy, as opposed to Jack and Ralph, works to achieve respect. In the novel Lord of the Flies, William Golding effectively conveys the idea that the responsibility of leadership can weigh heavily upon those unfit for power, resulting in fractures throughout society.

Leadership in the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is a role that is questioned throughout the book. Not that the role was ever questioned, but who had the role and the true leader was what was in question. Throughout the book, Ralph was the leader given that he was voted the leader by the group in the beginning. Ralph did show the most effective qualities with the goal that they were first set out to do as he was trying to be responsible, productive, and persistent. He tried to keep everything going to plan for his goal, as the leader for the group, of getting rescued from the island.

From the beginning of the book, Piggy is represented as a realist and pragmatic character. The boys are stranded on the island with no adults, yet throughout the book, Piggy acts as an adult. Everything Piggy does is well thought out, and logical. He is the ‘brains behind the operation’. We see this throughout the book. clearly, Piggy is a static character. Piggy continues to have faith in technology and uses his brains to help everyone, and that’s how he is from beginning to end.

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there are two obvious leaders: Ralph and Jack. Both are considered to be leaders, as they both have a following. But in the background, there is another leader: Piggy. In the book, he is portrayed in a way that at first would seem like he was a “wanna-be,” yet I strongly disagree. With all of his flaws, he had many strengths.

Piggy is clearly a clever boy, but he is a victim too. How does the writer use him in the novel?

Piggy

Piggy lectured them by asking how they could "…expect to be rescued if [they] don't put first things first and act proper?" (45), which is something they did not want to hear, this was proven time and time again when the boys not let him speak without interruption even when he had the conch shell. Piggy's greatest asset was also his weakest point; the only way he could relate to the other boys was at an intellectual level, whereas the other boys could only relate on an emotional level. Ironically, in spite of his intelligence and logic, rational thought, from the beginning of the novel, Piggy was a social outcast.

Piggy is probably the most civilized character in the book; even as the others begin to lose their morality, he sustains a sense of community and basic ethic. In the first chapter, he suggests using the conch to call other victims of the plane crash. This was a crucial part of the boys coming together and finding each other on the island and maintains basis for the actual plot of the book. Also, Piggy repeatedly compares the boys to children, for example, “like a pack of kids”. This simile highlights the effect of irony because they are, of course, kids, but it shows that Piggy does not regard himself as a child. He believes that the other boys act immature and has decidedly set himself apart from their behaviour. As well as this, Piggy is always found holding the conch; “he caressed the conch respectfully”. He relies on it to uphold a community-wide sense of civilization, and comfort himself in the way that he can revert back to the rules on holding the conch while speaking when he is being interrupted. For instance, on page 42, Piggy says, “I got the conch. You let me speak!”. This is very important because it demonstrates the symbolism of the conch as an object of society, and how much he considers its moral and societal value.