The title of the book is Lord of the flies the author is a British novelist named William Golding a British he wrote the book during WWII. What Golding aimed to do was explore the dark side of humanity and at what point would we look at each other as enemies. The main characters in the book that stood out the most were Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, Samneric and Rodger. They are the ones who have had the most critical change in the story. Ralph was the most sensible to me and I related to him on so many levels one of his is main objective was to keep order in the group. Ralph quickly becomes the group's leader being described as tall for his age and handsome, he looks over the other boys with a sense of maturity. Although Ralph isn’t as smart as Piggy, he is calm and rational and has moral judgment. Ralph remains the most civilized character even after the deaths of Simon and Piggy. Ralph represents enlightened instinct. Jack is the leader of the boys choir group in civilization and he is the complete opposite of Ralph. Jack wants to be leader and won’t let anyone stand in his way he rules through fear and shows signs of militarism and dictatorship. He is cruel, sadistic and preoccupied with hunting and killing pigs to help the rest signal for help. His sadism only gets worse throughout the novel, and eventually turns cruelly on the other boys. Jack pretends to show an interest in the rules of order on the island, but he views the differently because they only allow him to inflict punishment. Jack represents greed, savage and the anarchic aspects of man. Simon represents the sensitive, spiritual and caring side of human behavior he enjoys nature and often walks alone in the jungle like Piggy Simon is an outcast. The other... ... middle of paper ... ...ns Eden into hell. Simon appreciates how peaceful and beautiful the island is , but as he journeys deeper he finds The Lord of the Flies (the boars head) impaled at its center, the main symbol of how the innocence of childhood has been corrupted by fear and savagery. When Ralph is first introduced, he is acting like a child, splashing in the water, and laughing. He tells Piggy that his father, a naval commander, will rescue him. Ralph repeats his belief in their rescue throughout the novel, shifting his hope that his own father will discover them. To the more realistic idea that a passing ship will be attracted by the signal fire on the island. By the end of the novel, he has lost hope in the boys' rescue altogether. Notice how he goes from being optimistic to pessimistic his childhood wishes and fantasies are lost in the savagery and harshness of the jungle.
Ralph is one of the few boys who realize that the only way to survive is through peace and order. Because he summons the boys at the beginning of the novel with the conch he and Piggy find, they look upon him as the most responsible of the boys and elect him as a chief over the humiliated Jack. Ralph creates a stable and peaceful society for the children to live; this significantly bothers Jack because he wants to have fun and do things that he never did back in the civilized society. Jack is eventually successful of pulling nearly all of the children out of Ralph’s control to form savages. Ralph represents the civilization, and Jack represents the primitive society.
Simon is an empathetic character. When walking in the forest, Simon and the littluns find fruit trees. Because the littluns are small, “Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach” (56). After Simon finishes, the children look at him “inscrutably” (56). Simon picking the fruit displays that he understands that the littluns can’t pick some of the fruit. At one point in his life, Simon was as small and helpless as the littluns. Picking fruit for the boys would also sate their hunger. The younger boys watched Simon “inscrutably” because they didn’t understand why Simon picked fruit for them. Simon’s action also reflects the relationship between a mother and child; Simon is the mother feeding the child, the littluns. During the quarrel between Ralph and Jack, Piggy’s glasses falls onto the rocks. Piggy is mortified, but Simon jumps into action: “Simon, who got there first, found it for him.
It is hard to find a perfect match for Piggy. He is full of sensible, bright ideas, but because he is fat, a nerd and wears glasses, no one will listen to him except for Ralph. He was also kind of irritating. For example, he followed the rules too much. If something wasn’t done the way he knew was right, he would get all irate. Then, of course, when it went wrong, Piggy had no hesitation in telling people that he could’ve done it better.
As Simon wanders back to a beautiful meadow that he had traveled to before, he finds that it has changed. Instead of the peaceful meadow that Simon had discovered previously, the bloody head of a sow impaled by Jack and his follows taints the meadow. They had done this as an offering to the beast, hoping that the beast would be satisfied with the sow’s head and would give up hunting for the boys. After seeing this hideous sight, Simon quickly shuts his eyes in disgust. However, Simon can still feel the head’s horrid presence and eventually opens his eyes, getting a clear view of the head covered in flies, which he calls the Lord of the Flies. The head starts to speak to Simon, saying to hurry along back to the other children and to e...
The author, William Golding uses the main characters of Ralph, Jack, and Simon in The Lord of the Flies to portray how their desire for leadership, combined with lack of compromise leads to the fall of their society. This desire for leadership and compromise led to the fall of their society just like multiple countries during times of wars.
Now behind Ralph was piggy, who in the novel represented man’s knowledge and civilized man’s ideals. He was the one Ralph turned to when he was in doubt about what he must do, about what the civilized thing to do would be. Behind Jack was Rodger who represented the savagery and nature instinct that a human has to survive. Simon represented the spirituality and nature in the book.
Simon represents all kindness, decency and all that is good in the boys. When Simon is murdered, it is a turning point as all civilisation is destroyed and their world has degenerated to complete savagery. Rules, law and order as they knew it is gone. Ralph and Piggy realise that they need to be afraid as it is now Jack’s tribe that has become the evil beast. It is humanity and the underlying evil within man that has destroyed
Actors have interesting methods of converting their personalities into a totally different character. Not only can they change who they are, but they can also manipulate what they symbolize within their acting. Throughout past writer’s lifetimes, people would often include references to the bible in their novels through their use of symbolism in certain items or characters. William Golding is one example of a past writer that included many symbolic items throughout his writing. In Lord of The Flies, William Golding successfully uses characterization and symbolism to powerfully reveal the tragic state of society is the result of inherent defects in human nature.
Unlike Ralph, Jack symbolizes tyranny and violence. Jack shows his instinctive tyranny when Ralph decides that there should be a chief. Jack explains, “I ought to be chief.because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.” Jack is used to being a leader in his choir, and he wants to assert himself as the dictator on the island.
Our textbook poses these questions near the beginning of chapter three: “If we were untouched by society, would we be like feral children? By nature, would our behavior be like that of wild animals?” (67). It is rather difficult to actually study feral children, but in The Lord of the Flies, William Golding creates a world that allows us to imagine how children would act if they were isolated from the rest of society.
Lord of The Flies, by William Golding, is a novel about a group of British schoolboys who crash on an uninhabited island during the beginning of WWII and have no adults to help their survival. The oldest of the children is at the age of 12 and he is voted the chief of the group. His name is Ralph. Ralph is the first child introduced. He is depicted as a fun loving kid that enjoys life, but also takes things serious. He knows that others are stuck on this abandoned island and decides to find them. To do this he and another child Piggy blow into a conch in order to locate the other missing children. This is a success and leads the other schoolboys down by the beach where Ralph and Piggy are to be found. Jack is also another important character.
For my paragraph essay I will be writing about who I would chose for a leader if I were stuck on the island. I would choose the one who would do the best job at leading and keeping everyone else safe. They would also have to be confident in their decisions and they would have to choose what would be best for everyone and not just themselves. Each boy has their strengths and their weaknesses. Out of Piggy, Jack, and Ralph I would have to choose Ralph. I chose him because he is suited to be the leader. Once he realizes that there's no adults on the island and that no one knows where they are he steps up and takes charge.
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author William Golding about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Its stances on the already controversial subjects of human nature and individual welfare versus the common good earned it position 68 on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–1999.
Simon is a significant character in The Lord of the Flies. He is seen as pure and unaffected by the evil of the island. He is part of neither Jack's or Ralph's tribe, which immediately separates him from the group. Simon sees beyond the surface of things and it is for this reason that he was able to confront the "beastie" and find out the truth. “However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.” (Golding 103). The evil of the beast was only a manifestation of the boy's fears alone, so ultimately it was the boy's fears that led to the downfall of their civilization. Therefore, we can understand from the Lord of the Flies that William Golding believes humanity to be completely defective. The Lord of The Flies hung on a stick is a symbol of evil and the devil in the novel. The words spoken by the Lord of The Flies represent the evil instincts and thoughts in all humans. During Simon’s encounter with the Lord of The Flies, the beast states, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!” “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (Golding 143). This statement suggests Golding’s view on human nature. Golding is illustrating that there is evil in all humans and it is something inseparable from
Simon emerges as a Christ figure who confronts his fears and inner evil and by doing so, becomes stronger spiritually than the rest of the boys. Despite physical weakness, Simon exhibits enormous personal courage and purity, qualities often associated with Jesus Christ. Just like Jesus Christ, Simon presents himself as a helper and aide from the start, especially towards the younger boys. Simon often leaves the others to go off by himself after a hard day, though he often stops to help the littleuns “[finding] for them the fruit they [can] not reach, [pulling] off the choicest from up in the foliage, [passing] them back down to endless outstretched hands” (55), similar to Jesus feeding the hungry throughout the Bible. Simon's courage in the face of his own fear and evil nature leads him up the mountain to discover the truth about the beast. Before he may confront the beast, however, Simon must face his own fears and defeat the evil within him. He does so, denouncing the authority of the Lord of the Flies, his inner evil, and labeling him only a "pig's head on a stick" (147). After waking, though he "[staggers] some...