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This 6 page paper examines Rosalind Wiseman’s writing on “queen bees” and their courts and compares it to the group of boys William Golding creates in “The Lord of the Flies.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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a classroom to the board room. This paper considers the roles played by girls in Rosalind Wisemans essay "The Queen Bee and Her Court" and in William Goldings classic novel,
The Lord of the Flies. Discussion Wiseman says that there are seven "types" of girls within the "court," which is her name for the cliques that form in schools and
other settings. There is the "Queen Bee," her "sidekick," the "floater," the "torn bystander," the "pleaser/wannabe/messenger," the "banker" and the "target" (Wiseman). The roles are pretty much self-explanatory. The Queen
Bee is the leader of the clique and has gotten her position through a combination of "charisma, force, money, looks, will and manipulation" (Wiseman). The Queen Bee is the supreme
leader and maintains her position by weakening the friendships of the girls in her circle with others, making the group exclusive and under her control (Wiseman). The Queen Bees sidekick
follows the Queen slavishly because she really wants to be the Queen (Wiseman). She thinks the Queen Bee is her best friend because she flatters the girl, but its doubtful
if the friendship is as close as the sidekick would like it to be. The floater is unusual, because she moves easily among the various groups and has friends in
all of them. She "has influence over other girls but does not use it to make them feel bad" (Wiseman). The torn bystander is torn between her allegiance to the
group and her desire to do the right thing; if the clique does something wrong, even a prank she considers questionable, she is caught in the middle. The pleaser (wannabe/messenger)
will do anything she can to win the Queens favor as well as that of the sidekick; if two more powerful girls or groups are fighting, she is the one
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