“'The rules!' shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" 'What does it matter?' Ralph summoned his wits: 'Because rules are all we have!'” (91). In Lord of the Flies, Ralph tells Jack this at one of their assemblies, after scolding the boys for neglecting the shelter building and signal fires. Ralph's leadership is based on these rules, and Jack's violation of them causes an ideological conflict between them that ultimately leads to Ralph's loss of power within the group. He tries to create a just and orderly society to meet their needs and allow them to be saved, but the boys ultimately find Jack's crude lethargy and excesses more desirable. Desirable, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, can be "wanted or desired as an attractive, useful, or necessary course of action" (OED, but how can I cite that?? I don't know). Although Ralph's leadership style allows for freedom of expression through the conch, his emulation of traditional society1 requires greater responsibility from boys; on the contrary, Jack's government offers them less responsibility and greater freedom of desires2, which they consider attractive and advantageous, making it more desirable. Ralph's leadership style, with assigned tasks and organized meetings, is considered restrictive by others. Boys; Ralph plays the same role as the authority figures in their previous lives, ultimately causing them to resent his ideology over Jack's. His power came from chance: his discovery of the conch and Piggy's instructions on how to use it constituted his original popularity among the boys; unites them to it and its mystery causes it to be elected "chief". The rules of Ralph's c......middle of paper......on, Jack's serve as an escape from it, allowing the boys to entertain their wild instincts, a concept possible only with the isolated abandonment of 'island . But while Golding argues that Jack's leadership style is more desirable, the shift of power from Ralph to Jack is a disastrous process. At first, Ralph thinks that Jack's hunters see life on the island as a game, and the boys, in fact, join his tribe to free themselves from the responsibilities of reality. But as the book progresses, the isolation once again allows the “game” on the island to become seriously serious, resulting in an ideological war similar to the one taking place around it. Even as Ralph loses power and the conflict escalates, he remains strong in his beliefs. When the rest of the world is involved in a game that has turned into nuclear war, the rules are really all that's left..