Lord Of The Flies Psychopath Analysis

Although Ralph shows signs of the same psychopathic tendencies as Roger and Jack can Ralph be considered a psychopath? Roger and Jack step into the island landscape and are immediately captured by the essence of hunting and evil. Ralph starts the island by holding onto instilled morals and social norms, the sense of democracy and rescue guiding his actions. To attribute Ralph’s actions to the same scope of Roger’s and Jack’s would imply that nothing can be saved of the human race. The inherent evil with in everyone is unescapable. Ralph is entranced by the idea of acceptance by the hunters. Ralph joins the hunters for a hunting excursion, an out of character action. Ralph manages to injure a pig while hunting with the other boys. Ralph “[talks] on excitedly… [and] sunned himself in their newfound respect and felt that hunting was good after all” (Golding 124).

This pleasure, however, could be connected with the satisfaction of the respect he obtains. This unescapable evil seems to entice the boys on the island where they fall into this trap produced by the evil nature of human nature. Just as Jack and Roger participated in Simon’s murder as did Ralph. However, in incongruity with Jack’s and Roger’s reaction Ralph appears to feel remorse for his action. Regardless of his regret for his actions he still partook in the murder. But the involvement could again be correlated to the need for approval. So again the question of failure for the human race is posed. Is the evil within all humans unescapable? It seems to be on the island for these unfortunate boys but in society where laws and restrictions are placed can the nature of humans be