In the novel Lord of the Flies the main conflict is man vs self. The boys, mostly Ralph and Jack, struggle with themselves to differentiate between right and wrong. At the beginning of this novel they knew what was considered right and wrong but as the story went on most of the boys started to lose their moral compasses and started to act very animalistic. They honestly believed what they were doing was right, but they were spurred on by the actions of the closest thing they had to an adult, Ralph and Jack. Ralph, the protagonist, is the primary representative of order and civilization. At the beginning Ralph sets about building huts and thinking of ways to higher their chances of being rescued, while everyone else is more concerned with having
