Ralph And Piggy

The Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a novel about a group of boys stranded on an island with no adults and no rules. Golding believes that humans all have a capability to do wrong, and through The Lord of the flies portrays how certain situations make a human’s capacity for evil more prominent. Golding shows how the boys’ civilization deteriorates from being good British kids to murderous savage people. The novel can easily be connected to the Stanford Prison Experiment, and how what happened to the boys on the island can happen outside the realm of fiction. Golding shows the reader what the Lord of the Flies is in the book and how the namesake of the book is found in all of us.

Human’s innate behavior after the constraints and expectations of society disappear is the recurring theme centering the characters. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies uses the righteous Simon to highlight Jack and his evil role throughout the novel of savagery and civilization. The foil characters in Lord of the Flies exhibit the contrasting ideals and characteristics, the dissimilar symbolism of both characters, and the circumstances which lead both characters to follow one’s natural tendencies. To emphasize the message of Lord of the Flies, two young innocent boys will gradually begin to show their individualism.

Simon is the one boy who never participates in destructive behaviors and always contributes to the well being of the boys. He continues to work even after everyone stops, gives Piggy food when no one else will, and speaks his mind about the beast. He is also the only one to realize that the true beast is inside the boys. Simon’s moral compass, much like the superego, allows him to see the evil of mankind. Simon is whole-heartedly good. The superego attempts to lead a person to the morally right pathway, much like Simon aims to show Ralph how he can do what’s best for the tribe. The primitive nature of the others overpowers Simon’s internal good nature. Even after his death, Simon’s moral nature lives on through the boys similar to how the superego can continue to shine after a person follows the desires of the id.

Throughout the book “the lord of the flies” there are characters that seem so different from each other, but are alike in many ways. These characters are Ralph, and jack and simon, and piggy. In the book Ralph’s appearance is described as being very good looking. He also has a good figure, making a lot of the kids in the group jealous. To go along with his appearance he is very confident and gets excited easily. Ralph was put in charge of the group of kids, but he isn’t very intelligent. When ralph and piggy first met piggy told him his name( or nickname) and ralph laughed at him, piggy wasn’t really bothered by it as long as he didn’t tell the others. this interactions shows that Ralph is also childish. When they eventually met the other

Ralph and Piggy represent how some people maintain their moral compass no matter the situation, as they choose to maintain societal responsibilities for the little ones and make pragmatic decisions that would benefit everyone; nevertheless, they have different sources of power. Ralph’s source of power is his morality, his courage, and his natural tendency towards leadership; for example, Ralph is the first to discover a way to gather the boys together in the beginning of the novel, securing his place as the chief when the vote is taken; furthermore, with leadership comes courage, as he takes the risk in putting the well-being of the “tribe,” including the younger kids who serve no tactical purpose, onto himself. Moreover, Ralph’s morality is

Evil is at in the center of anyone’s soul, and that’s what Golding shows in Lord of the Flies. The book is about a plane crashing onto an abandoned island, and a large group of boys is stranded without any adults. They let their animalistic sides slowly take over throughout the book, becoming practically different people. Golding shows this evil throughout the book with early signs of evil, characters with evil intentions, and clear signs of evil at work. The beginning of the book is about the boys meeting up with each other and establishing rules for their group.

Many crucial characteristic details are revealed through the first interactions between Ralph and Piggy and the choir boys. The true characters of the boys are disclosed and that helps construct the base for the reader to expand on. Roger was described to have “an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy” which greatly unravels him to be incredibly dark through the death of Piggy. Additionally, Simon is depicted relatively weak as he has fainted and “smiled pallidly at Ralph.” The diction used depicts Simon to be quite genuine with a sincere aspect compared to the other boys. Later in the passage, even Jack’s competitiveness is exposed as his “face disappeared under a blush of mortification” revealing his greediness for power and authority.

While Jack surrendered himself to chaos and leading like a dictator, Ralph was true to himself and was able to remain sane until rescued. Piggy also stood by Ralph the whole time they were trapped on the island. Piggy was Ralph’s advisor, he wore glasses, was fat, and outcasted the second he was on the island but he was the smartest. When Jack’s tribe killed Piggy they killed what was left of civilization on the island.

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a very peculiar, yet intriguing story about a group of schoolboys that have landed on an island after their plane crashed. Ralph, the main protagonist of the story, is delighted at the lack of adults and their harsh rules of society, as are many of the other boys. However, Piggy, the voice of reason throughout the story, does not share Ralph’s merriment and is more concerned with being rescued. At the start of the story, Ralph and Piggy come across a conch shell, which they use to summon the other survivors of the plane crash. The surviving boys are an assortment of “bigguns” and “littluns”, including Jack Merridew, the main antagonist of the story.

Simon, one of the major characters in the story, is set as the allusion of Jesus. Christ always had an affinity with children; in Ch. 4, he shows his way with the ‘littluns’ by picking fruit for them. This shows his goodness by nature. Also, like Christ, he saw the atavistic problem of the hunters and tried to bring them back to good. As in the bible, Simon, like Christ, dies

Every once in a while, an event happens that makes us delve into our subconscious, often resulting into the discovery of a different inner being. In the book, Lord of the Flies, the inner being of multiple people are perfectly depicted. Opposite the young boys’ beliefs, the Lord of the Flies, or the symbol of the “beast,” is not “something you could hunt and kill”(164). It is, in fact, an evil inside of each boy’s soul that slowly drives the boys to savagery. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding gives its readers a view into a society made up of young British boys, all raised in civilized and orderly households, that end up stranded on a deserted island.

When the group murdered Simon as a whole, they proved beyond any doubt that they were capable of completely giving up the ideals of their past to commit acts of unimaginable brutality. Their actions were foreshadowed in the words of the Lord Of The Flies, who told Simon that “You know perfectly well you’ll only meet me down there-so don’t try to escape!”. This scene puts into action this prophecy, confirming the idea that the beast that they feared so much was within them all along. Due to Simon’s symbolic position within the story as an almost messianic bastion of kindness and reason, his death symbolizes both his physical murder and the island-wide death of innocence, rationality, and gentleness. In the chronology of the novel, this scene represents the shift into chaos and rule by force that sets into play the death of Piggy later within the novel and the island-wide manhunt for Ralph in the final chapter.

In viewing the aspects of the island society, the author William Golding's Lord of the Flies as a symbolic microcosm of society. He chooses to set the children alone in an unsupervised world, leaving them to learn ‘ the ways of the world’ in a natural setting first hand. Many different perspectives can also be considered. Golding's island of marooned youngsters becomes a microcosm. The island represents the individual human and the various characters represent the elements of the human psyche.

Instead of using big, bad, dark vicious characters like monsters or communists, Golding uses young prepubescent boys, many as little as six years. Since children have always been declared a symbol of innocence and ignorant bliss, Golding remarkably twists that symbol explicitly making it known to his readers that no one is innocent; that innocence is merely a delusion. Using children in an unfamiliar twist symbolizes a lot to readers that the theme of malice within human nature is a universal one, there is no innocence. Some of the characters like Piggy at first seem fairly ingenuous; a young slightly round boy who wears glasses and seems relatively shy yet later in the novel he, like all the other boys ruthlessly stab Peter willingly through social conditioning. Piggy is just one example of a good, young, moral boy driven mad by his inner beast and he perfectly symbolizes most of the boys’ own innocence vanishing while on the island.

I walked into my living room, ready to yell at my father for not lowering the volume of the television. He sat hypnotized on the couch as he stared at the CNN News headlines popping up on the screen. Only interested in stories with happy endings, I rolled my eyes at the 100-inch flat screen TV, where news reporters are constantly arguing with each other, debating the news of terrorist attacks, robberies, racism, and political corruption. This frequent bickering and arguing suggests that humans are born evil. Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, constantly brings up this theme of human nature.