Struggle For Power In Lord Of The Flies Essay
Struggle For Power In the novel, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, there is several times where characters struggle for power. The two main people who have the worst time in their struggle for power are Jack and Ralph. They both are very opinionated and have different outlooks on how the tribe should be ran until they are rescued. This often happens among newly created societies and this one in particular because they are all young boys. Jack struggles for power against Ralph in the beginning whereas Ralph struggles for it more towards the end. The need for power overcomes Jack in the beginning when he offers himself up as leader and Ralph is voted in instead of him. Jack is a very power hungry individual who is not afraid to speak his
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Ralph is assigned the leader of all the boys in the beginning so he had no real struggle. He told them what he thought was right, and they all obeyed until taunted by Jack. When Jack comes into the picture, everyone abandons Ralph and his plans to go eat with Jack. Ralph struggles to find allies and is annoyed at the fact that they boys just left him like that. Had the boys stood up to Jack and remained loyal to Ralph, Ralph would never have struggled. He needed that to bring out his driven personality. Ralph had many ideas that ended up failing him in the long run, but he still tried to convince the boys to come back with him. His strategy was that the fire was most important and that it would lead to rescue, ironically he was right except it was not his fire that got them rescued, it was Jack’s accidental fire that got them saved. In the end, many of the boys struggle for power in their own way. The boys were all up against each other and the only one who never gains true power is Piggy. The two main boys, Ralph and Jack, butt head several times through the novel but are always drawn to one another in a weird way. They had things in common but they did not think alike, they just both want to be leaders and lead the group in what they thought was the right
Ralph is assigned the leader of all the boys in the beginning so he had no real struggle. He told them what he thought was right, and they all obeyed until taunted by Jack. When Jack comes into the picture, everyone abandons Ralph and his plans to go eat with Jack. Ralph struggles to find allies and is annoyed at the fact that they boys just left him like that. Had the boys stood up to Jack and remained loyal to Ralph, Ralph would never have struggled. He needed that to bring out his driven personality. Ralph had many ideas that ended up failing him in the long run, but he still tried to convince the boys to come back with him. His strategy was that the fire was most important and that it would lead to rescue, ironically he was right except it was not his fire that got them rescued, it was Jack’s accidental fire that got them saved. In the end, many of the boys struggle for power in their own way. The boys were all up against each other and the only one who never gains true power is Piggy. The two main boys, Ralph and Jack, butt head several times through the novel but are always drawn to one another in a weird way. They had things in common but they did not think alike, they just both want to be leaders and lead the group in what they thought was the right