From innocent children to violent barbarians, Golding uses his characters to symbolize human nature upon all the age groups in the world. In the Lord of the Flies, each character represents one’s individualism in society and reveals their roles on an island that is entirely isolated from civilization. The main characters often act as foils against one other main character of different thoughts and beliefs including Jack and Ralph, Roger and Piggy, and Simon—who is among the most unordinary human being much like Jesus Christ who tried to save humans from corrupting themselves as much as possible through their visions of truth, reality, and good and evil. These characters’ diversity created the society after all, in which Golding uses them to
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With Piggy and Roger acting against each other, Simon tries to maintain the balance between these two through his spirituality and rationality upon the beastie. Simon had always stayed quiet to himself and much preferred hiding his own ideas that were truly vulnerable to group till he has gotten prove. Nevertheless, by the time Simon has found enough evidence to recover the beast in the boys’ minds, the boys would no longer believe him because savagery has taken over every one of them including Ralph and Piggy. Roger, very much like Simon did not show himself openly to the others because he had a secret about himself in which his true side of savagery was more savaged than anyone else on the island. He would simply take pleasure from harming the boys as the grasps of civilizations and society’s social order on Roger weakened gradually. Piggy, the opposite of Roger openly expressed his ideas to the group for the goods of the island and human nature. His scientific brain and future technologies brought better civilization of the island. If not for Jack and his tribe, his glasses which represented intellectualism and the conch that he found would contribute to leading the group towards positive outcomes of their eventual rescue; rather than being mocked by the naval officer; they would be respected among a more civilized officer who would rather recognize …show more content…
Even though Jack represents savagery, one must not accuse his mistakes because Ralph had more “sense” (Page 206). They are strongly connected even though their own human natures are opposed to each other. Same with Roger and Piggy, who had their strengths and weaknesses coping with each other; their one weakness is recognized as strength in the other. Therefore, they are also strongly connected in society. However, the one coming to balance their powers is Simon who tries to save them from becoming brutal barbarians killing each other. His great vision gives him the drive to bring the island to a highly spiritual place, neither leaning on the aspects of civilization or savagery. From these five characters, Golding shows the readers his vision of the roots of society and how it’s created. Giving the readers a sense of both civilization and savagery, his characters represent great attributes of these and come alive to this novel—the Lord of the
With Piggy and Roger acting against each other, Simon tries to maintain the balance between these two through his spirituality and rationality upon the beastie. Simon had always stayed quiet to himself and much preferred hiding his own ideas that were truly vulnerable to group till he has gotten prove. Nevertheless, by the time Simon has found enough evidence to recover the beast in the boys’ minds, the boys would no longer believe him because savagery has taken over every one of them including Ralph and Piggy. Roger, very much like Simon did not show himself openly to the others because he had a secret about himself in which his true side of savagery was more savaged than anyone else on the island. He would simply take pleasure from harming the boys as the grasps of civilizations and society’s social order on Roger weakened gradually. Piggy, the opposite of Roger openly expressed his ideas to the group for the goods of the island and human nature. His scientific brain and future technologies brought better civilization of the island. If not for Jack and his tribe, his glasses which represented intellectualism and the conch that he found would contribute to leading the group towards positive outcomes of their eventual rescue; rather than being mocked by the naval officer; they would be respected among a more civilized officer who would rather recognize …show more content…
Even though Jack represents savagery, one must not accuse his mistakes because Ralph had more “sense” (Page 206). They are strongly connected even though their own human natures are opposed to each other. Same with Roger and Piggy, who had their strengths and weaknesses coping with each other; their one weakness is recognized as strength in the other. Therefore, they are also strongly connected in society. However, the one coming to balance their powers is Simon who tries to save them from becoming brutal barbarians killing each other. His great vision gives him the drive to bring the island to a highly spiritual place, neither leaning on the aspects of civilization or savagery. From these five characters, Golding shows the readers his vision of the roots of society and how it’s created. Giving the readers a sense of both civilization and savagery, his characters represent great attributes of these and come alive to this novel—the Lord of the