Desire For Power In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

Desire for Power In Lord of the Flies, Jack has a great desire for power. When the leader of the group is chosen, and he is not selected, he is furious. He has a great hunger for power and this desire shows up from the very start with his dictating of the choir boys. Throughout the book, his struggle goes back and forth until he loses himself to the power in the end. At the very start of the book, they boys decide on a leader for the group. They decide that it is wisest to have someone making the decisions as there are many of them and they have a great many needs. The biggest difference between Jack and Ralph is that Jack hungers for power, while Ralph does not, but is nevertheless a good leader. Though at first Jack agrees with many of Ralph’s decisions, once they apply to him, he is no longer interested. His desires for power lead him to be defiant and eventually
In this way he is able to control what goes on with the others, and get his way all the time. Being in charge like this feeds his want for power and turns him slightly crazy, leading him to become more and more uncivilized. This path eventually leads him to become nearly completely savage, to the point where he is murderous towards anyone who does not agree with him or anyone who has wronged him in the past, such as Ralph. One of the main reasons that I believe Golding put this struggle in his book Lord of the Flies, is because it shows humans desire for power and the major ways in which that can go wrong. It reveals that our base human wants can be good or evil, and very often when they are evil they come to control us then lead us to our own demise. We are led to believe that these desires are strong, but not evil, and trick ourselves into believing this by twisting justifications in our minds. However, in the end these evils will destroy us if we do not realize them before it is too