Anarchy, Evil, Leadership…
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (202) If there is not a leader, or the leader doesn’t have good leadership skills, evilness and anarchy can occur. In 1954, William Golding wrote a novel called Lord of the Flies, which demonstrated this point.
Without leadership there aren’t any rules or with bad leadership, people break the rules. For example, one of the first rules that the group came up with was the conch rule. The conch was a seashell that could be used as a whistle. The conch rule was that if you had the conch, you had the floor and nobody was to interrupt you. “Jack stood up, scowling in the gloom, and held out his hands. ‘I haven’t finished yet.’
‘but you’ve talked and talked!’
‘I’ve got the conch.’ Jack sat down grumbling.”
Breaking the conch rule was the starting point of anarchy. After that many other rules were broken. For instance, when Jack and his hunters were supposed to keep the fire going, they went hunting instead and let the fire go out.
Without leadership people do what they want. When Jack decided they needed to hunt, he just did it without approval, when they should have been watching the fire. As a result, the fire went out and a ship passed by the island.
“’You let the fire go out’
This repetition made Jack uneasy. He looked at the twins then back at Ralph.
‘We had to have time to hunt,’ he said.
‘or there wouldn’t have been enough for a ring.’” (70)
Some members of the group began to do whatever they wanted. When Ralph decided they needed to build shelters, they helped at first. After long Ralph and Simon were the only people building the huts. This also led to anarchy and the group splitting up into two groups. Having two groups that did not get along, one being blood thirsty savages, caused more of the problems that occurred later in the book.
With bad leadership, or no leadership people follow their instinct even if it’s wrong. After the group split up, Jack and the hunters were dancing and celebrating, they got confused and followed their instinct. They killed what they thought was the beast, but it was really Simon.
“Fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror.
In the novel the Lord of the Flies many leadership changes occurred, and laws were enforced. The story started off when the children from a plane get stranded on an island. A boy Ralph established himself as a leader and wanted to start a community on the island but it backfired when the others did not want to help and would rather have fun. Eventually the community would split and it would fall into turmoil after that. The book shows many ways where the group or the boys affects Ralph and the community to a point where rules are cages and problems happen and Ralph wants it his way but the group wants it theirs. In the novel the Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the theme that groups can affect individuals is shown when groups of peoples
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This fire, their only hope of getting off the island, escaping this world, was out and there was no way for Ralph to start it. He was the only one who was sound enough to use the fire to get off, and the tribe had stolen it from him. While all this built up and eventually turned into a war, the anarchy of the world actually freed them from what they had been living. When rebellion and chaos had tried to catch order and destroy it, they started a fire, a new hope, that saved them from the island.
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There wasn’t any kind or response as they saw Simon get murdered in this moment, except expressing emotions of fear. They saw him, and knew it wasn’t the beast. No one stopped to help Simon, they let him die to the hands of Jack and his group of hunters. That also went along with another psychological factor. The boys were following whoever took charge which led them to be manipulated, or they were under blind obedience to authority. This quote of dialogue shows us that they were going to let a chief takeover decide things for them instead providing ideas themselves: “‘Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide for things.’ ‘a chief!, a chief!’” (Golding 22). Clearly showing their willingness to have a leader and more importantly, to be led. This was only the beginning of the boys just following and needing a leader just because they couldn’t do anything, along with them being under the influence of fear. Everyone just followed whoever took charge and didn’t bother to weigh the pros and cons, or actually question if they were a good leader. They were so blinded and would do whatever it takes to survive. This also connecting to this next psychological
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