Lord of the Flies - characters

RALPH
1. First character we meet, elected chief - likeable + stereotypically popluar + attractive
  1. 'The boy with fair hair
  2. At the end he is the least changed boy (not savage) + only one to talk sensibly to naval officer
2. Protagonist
3. Represents order + civilization
  1. Used to show patience, rational approach to problems + focusing one a long term goal - fire + shelters + rules
4. Easy to sympathise with - appears ordinary + reasonable
5. Has no hidden depths, unhealthy character traits, is gentle + can be trusted
  1. 'there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil'
6. Always concerned about being rescued/making life nice
7. Only one to take any responsiblitly for Simon's death - leadership qualities
JACK
1. Antagonist
2. Represents chaos + savagery
  1. Mask - can't see his face, de-humanising
    1. 'The mask compelled them'
  2. Chant about killing the pig
    1. 'Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill her blood!'
  3. Primative act of offering the sow's head to the beast
3. Very arrogant + believes he should be chief, runs off after Ralph is elected for the 2nd time
  1. 'I ought to be chief said Jack with simple arrogance'
  2. 'I can sing c-sharp'
4. His behaviour is affected by his strong desire to hunt + kill a pig
5. He's unconcerned about keeping a fire going, getting rescued or building shelters + lets the fire out
6. Steals Piggy's glasses
PIGGY
1. Represents law and order and civilzation
2. Very inteligent - recognises the conch + therefore is the reason that all the boys met and Ralph became leader
  1. Conch represents civilization, order + law
3. Outsider - lower class, uses non-standard English, has asmar, wears glasses, fat
4. Never know his real name - de-humanising him, foreshadows death + boys decent to savagery?
5. Bullied by Jack, who is is imediately terrieifed of
6. His glasses represent civilization - used to light a fire for a signal which was due to rational thinking, but when stolen just used for more primative things such as warmth and finally for violence to smoke Ralph out the forest
  1. Also represent intelligence as they are linked to Piggy
7. Only fear on the island should be the fear of the people
8. Killed by Roger - Ch. 11
SIMON
1. Faints on the beach - setting himself aside
2. 'communicates' with the 'Lord of the Flies' and looses conciousness
3. Discouvers the dead parachutist + is killed when coming to tell the boys the truth about the beast
  1. Only one to discouver the truth about the beast
4. Seen as strange by the other boys, but can't describe him
  1. 'batty'
  2. 'queer'
  3. 'funny'
  4. 'cracked'
5. Unable to explain the notion of evil which manifests itself in the idea of the fear and the beast
  1. Nothing to fear + there's life beyond the island
  2. 'Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness'
  3. 'The beast was harmless and horrible'
6. Has considerable strength of mind but his body is frail
7. Simon is a representation of fundamental innocence. He exists outside the system of masculinity and roughness that Ralph, Jack, and the others have grown up in, and is an image of non-conformity.
  1. Christ-like
SAMNERIC
1. Twins - do everything together
  1. 'breathed together'
2. Almost let the fire out when falling asleep on duty
3. See the parachutist + belive it is the beast
4. Loyal to Ralph until forced to join Jack's tribe
5. Tortured by Roger
6. Warn Ralph of Jack's intentions to hurt him
  1. Want to stay on Ralph's side + retain civilized values but are made to do what Jack wants
7. Are a single until - descibe the encounter with the 'beast' in stereo - more frightening
8. The change in their name represents the decent for civilization to savagery - Sam and Eric, Sam 'n' Eric, Samneric
  1. Lose their individuality
LITTLENS
1. Remain mostly anonymous
2. Gives the 'boy with the mulberry birthmark' a memerable characteristic - obvious that her is missing
3. Golding uses them to give clues about what is happening in the novel
4. Percival's response about his name dwindles - represents how the boys have been de-humanised and savage
ROGER + MAURICE
1. Part of Jack's choir + hunters
2. Destroy the littlun's sandcastles + kick sand in Percival's eye
  1. Maurice feels guilty - retains a sense of sin
3. Roger throws stones at Henry
4. Roger first sees Jack's mask
5. ROGER
  1. 'Sharpened a stick at both ends'
  2. Acts 'with a sense of delirious abandonment' when killing Piggy
  3. Administers torture + appeares to enjoy it
  4. 'You don't know Roger. He's a terror'
    1. Twins metion him first as a terror

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