Power In Lord Of The Flies Essay

“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules to obey. After all we’re not savages.” Lord of the Flies is a novel about some English school boys who end up on an island and struggle with how to organize their new life so it can have a bit of order. In the midst of all of this they rely on the customs of their old life to try and set things up. Throughout the novel leadership and control become a struggle to balance. In the end, some of the boys become savages because not matter how hard they try to uphold their old life, they can’t resist when they have every excuse to not be civilized. Power is the ability to do something or act in a particular way. Not only do the boys struggle with how to balance power and control but so do people today which is why I wasn’t to surprised to discover what I did as observed. I believe that no matter what situation you’re in power changes a person.
I observed a group of girls at third lunch. This group happens to be the group I’m apart of. All six of us are sophomores. During third lunch we sit at the same table every day, in the same spots. We aren’t some organized group or club, just friends at lunch. No one in our group dresses similar, looks similar, or talks similar. But, we all like to mess around and have a laugh.
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Who are you anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do…” This quote is fitting because it brings into question who actually is in control. I observed that Brittney thinks she’s in control. I believe when people get to a certain point they forget right and wrong and will do whatever it takes to get what they want. It isn’t just in Lord of the Flies or with my group, but many people have this problem. She is the one who is most like Jack in the aspect that sometimes the hunger for power clouds her morals. She wants to be leader so badly she will do things that aren’t always right to try and win people over. Jack also had this problem and he did some pretty cruel things to get what he