Characterize the two boys in Lord of the Flies who want to be chief by defining/explaining which archetype each represents.Has to be a paragraph in...

In a discussion of William Golding's Lord of the
Flies as an allegory, the reader recognizes the major characters as
archetypes, or embodiments of a generic personality type which has recognizable and
typical behaviors.  Ralph and Jack Merridew are the two characters in Golding's novel
who become leaders and who vie for ultimate
leadership. 

Ralph 

From
the first pages of the narrative, Ralph emerges as the "born leader,"  the stereotypical
"golden boy" who is handsome and charismatic.  Repeatedly he is referred to as "the fair
boy."  This phrase indicates his light hair, but it is also a 1950s buzzword for
"favorite" (e.g.  The boss's fair haired boy=his favorite).  When Piggy asks him his
name, he merely replies with his first name:  "Ralph"--an indication of his importance
as very famous people such as biblical figures and movie and rock stars are often known
just by their first names. Uninhibited as he is aware of his beauty, Ralph quickly
strips off his clothes from his "golden body" so he can jump into the water and cool
off.  Confident and somewhat arrogant, Ralph laughs at Piggy's nomenclature and mock's
Piggy's plea not to call him by this name.  After the swim,he commands Piggy to get his
clothes, and laughs with pleasure at the prospect of having "a coral island" on which
to dwell.  

When Piggy shows him the conch and explains how
to blow into it, Ralph uses the conch to call the others on the island.  The children
who respond automatically give him "the same simple obedience that they had given to the
men with megaphones," because Ralph is a commanding figure. However, upon the arrival of
Jack Merridew, Ralph recognizes his rival; he seeks to override Jack's order to
Piggy--"Shut up, Fatty," by telling a small boy named Henry to "Shut up," adding "Seems
to me we ought to have a chief to decide
things."

Jack
Merridew

A dark party of boys, the choir,
emerges from a mirage after Ralph blows the conch.  As they fall into line, a tall boy
shouts orders which the choir wearily obeys.  When one boy collapses from the heat and
sun, the tall boy dismisses his act as a pretense:  "He's always throwing a faint,...He
did in Gib; and Addis; and at matins over the precentor."  As the choir boys snigger,
they examine Ralph with interest.  But, Piggy asks no names, for he is intimidated
by

the
uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's voice.  He shrank to the
other side of
Ralph...

Repeating his last
name, Golding has Merridew say, "Then we'll have to look after ourselves," thus
attempting to take charge of the situation.  Ralph asserts himself, saying, "We'd better
all have names...so, I'm Ralph."  But Merridew vies with him for
dominance,

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"Kids' names," said Merridew.  "Why should I be
Jack?  I'm
Merridew."

When Ralph calls
for the election of a chief, Merridew--who, interestingly is now referred by
Golding only as "Jack," loses his prominence although
Piggy

is
intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew's
voice.

The two archetypes,
Ralph and Jack, thus become the two opposing forces of man's nature in the
allegorical novel--the one civilized and the other brutish and
savage.