Ignorance and Bad Leadership in Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Society is based off of hierarchy which is the basis for the change people have in society. Sometimes it’s good and other times…. Well it’s not so good. In most respects, leadership defines the outcome of a certain society. A good leader with good intentions, leading society in good directions is bound to be beneficial and maintain an ethos that will carry with them for the rest of their lives. But then there are others that are too ignorant and become less and less what they had hoped to be. Lord of the flies by William Golding is a great example of this. Golding argues that where there is a gain in power with bad leadership, that there is a loss of identity. In Lord of the Flies, A few boys arrive on a plane after it had crashed because of a war that was taken place at the time of the plane crashing. The basic synopsis is that they are trying to be rescued. The boys recollect after being separated. There are no adults on the island either. During the period they were on the island, Lots of the boys had changed. Particularly Jack… He is a choir boy who wanted to be leader. His drastic change from choir boy to savage sets the stage for loss of identity. Rogers’s morals to his change in identity are drastic when he throws rocks at the littleuns. Finally we have Percival who’s Innocence and lack of understanding in the cruel world is destroying him mentally.

Jack is a boy who was one of the biguns found in lord of the flies. He stays in competition with ralph for leadership over the boys. In the beginning, Jack is shot down as leader when Ralph is voted upon by a group vote consisting of all the boys. His main job was a hunter that was assigned by ralph. When jack goes hunting he spot’s a pig. He catches up to it and almost kills i...

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It seems like no matter what we try to do we are always exploited to bad leadership and bad outcomes of bad leadership. It could be just as bad as jack with his tribe, Or even worse with bloodthirsty people such as Robert. But we can never escape it. Percival was not adapting to the world, so he just broke down. We as a society need to find a middle ground in which we can have a good leader while adapting to the bad things that society shows us. If we go too far in power, we become different people. We become… less then what we were previously, If we try to contain leadership to absolutely 0. We become too innocent and become fearful of all that society truly is. We can’t really change society to shape it on our own, so we do it by adapting and trying to pave the way for future generations to come to an understanding of the world we live in now.