Lord Of The Flies: Depending? Leadership is a characteristic that all of humanity strives for. Be it women or men, we all look for leadership to be guiding, dependent, and comforting. In the novel The Lord Of The Flies, William Golding creates a character, Ralph, who is chosen to be the leader of a group of boys stranded on a deserted island. Ralph possesses certain attributes that make him a both good and bad leader. Golding develops this concept of leadership by providing many examples of Ralph's ability to conduct order on the island. During the first half of the novel, Ralph portrays himself as a fairly adequate leade