When authority is rescinded, evil and malevolence take over. That is the message portrayed while reading William Goldberg’s Lord of the Flies, a novel focusing on a group of grade-school boys who are deserted on an island after a plane crash during war. This theory becomes apparent when the development of the main characters Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, as well as the group of boys as a whole, is analyzed. To facilitate analyses, it is easiest to break the development into three stages, the beginning, where authority is present, the midpoint, where authority has fallen, and the ending, where malicious intent overwhelms the boys. The beginning of the story has the boys gather for a meeting to discuss roles in the group. Ralph picks up a conch
