Lord Of The Flies Comparison

Register to read the introduction… It is especially easy to connect the characters in each of the books. Both books have an extreme amount of violence; while Jack is the leader of the savagery in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Curley instills terror in his father’s employees in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Through the violence though, Ralph and George were generally good. There was even comic relief in both Piggy and Lennie. There are many likenesses among the characters in Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and …show more content…
In viewing these characters as the Hero and the Comic Relief, Of Mice and Men began in the same way; the Hero - George - and the Comic Relief - Lennie - were introduced. Both Heros in each of the books are looked at as leaders in one way or another. George is Lennie's companion. He is able to tell Lennie the right or wrong thing to do, and Lennie listens. Lennie listened when George instructed him to protect himself against the boss’s son Curley and when George told him to hide in the brush by the river. He tried to listen when George told him to not do any bad things and when he said to stay away from Curley’s wife, but Lennie failed at those two things. Ralph was a leader from the very beginning when the other boys voted him to be their chief. Contrary to George, the people Ralph was leading seldom listened to him or carried out his instructions. When Ralph was trying to get the boys to build huts they would not. However, in the end, both boys defy their general qualities of goodness and leadership. When George shoots Lennie in Of Mice and Men, it was for arguably selfish reasons. Perhaps he was trying to prove himself not guilty of being involved with Curley’s Wife’s death. In Lord of the Flies, it is clear that Ralph gave into his evil side when he savagely killed Simon with the other