Leadership In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

The setting in the novel, Lord of the Flies by Golding, is on a vacant island in the Pacific Ocean. The weather on the island is mostly sunny and warm except there is a violent storm that causes a change in leadership among the boys who are trapped. The island is mainly a jungle where pigs and fruit are found to be eaten. The boys’ health on the island is relatively fine because none of them have a major sickness or injuries. The lack of wreckage is hard because the boys don’t have the tools they could have used to make living easier. Their first instincts are to call a meeting and create a society and their first social contract is to create hunters. The island is a paradise to the boys because they could do things how they wanted and they had freedom. The boys create a leader just as Locke and Hobbes stated. Among the boys there are two leaders fighting for the leadership role and both boys portray a Locke and a Hobbes type of governing. John Locke and Thomas Hobbes are two philosophers with a different perspective on the nature of people and throughout the story Piggy has evidence of both.
Locke says how man keeps his promise. Piggy is like Locke because he believes man is naturally good. When Piggy says, "I don't care what they call me so long as… so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school…They used to call me Piggy!'" (Golding 11). He has experienced what Hobbes talks about. Hobbes believes that man is cruel. Kids at school made fun of Piggy and bullied him. Piggy is like Locke because he is being logical and thinks about the future. He states how “We may stay here till we die.” He understands that there is a possibility that they won't be found, which creates a Locke