Ralph Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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Ralph wants to be rescued and he thinks his dad is going to rescue him. He tells everybody that his dad, who is a Navy Commander, is going arrive as soon as he finds out that they are stranded. Piggy questions, “When’ll your dad rescue us?” (Golding 12).
Piggy keeps telling Ralph that killing Simon was an accident. Ralph says to Piggy, “That was murder” (Golding 144). Ralph is the civilized human instinct of the story. He wants everything to be organized and be led by rules. He has a rule that the person holding the conch is the only person that can speak. And another rule is to keep the fire going at all times, or as long as you can. By the end of the book Jack and all the other boys are hunting for Ralph because they think he’s a traitor and would rather kill him then talk about it. Jack represents the savage side of human nature and Ralph
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He does not care about being rescued he wants to be dictator and have full control over everything. When Jack was doing his ritual dance he saw Simon climb in the hole and everybody started beating him and pushed him off the cliff and he died. Jack is a dictator he takes control of everything and is ruthless and kills simon and piggy. “I expect the beast disguised itself”(Golding 148). He thought one of the boys was disguised as the beast because the “beast” didn’t accept his offering of the pig head. Jack is the wild crazy animal side of human nature. Jack and Ralph represent Yin and Yang Because they are complete opposites of each other.

Lord of The Flies is a novel about a group of kids getting stranded on the island. They represent good and evil. Jack represents evil, and Ralph represents good. They are alike in that they are both leaders, but different in how they reacted to Simon’s death. Jack felt no remorse while Ralph felt guilty. The novel show how humans can

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