Who Is Roger To Blame In Lord Of The Flies

Roger: The One to Blame?
“Research indicates that genetics is responsible for about fifty-percent of criminal behavior and environment accounts for the rest,” referring to the reasons why people become criminals (Beller). This equates to the hostile situation that Roger is in on the island with the other boys. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of British boys become stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere after their plane crashes. Their pilot has died, so there is no adult supervision whatsoever. Ralph, one of the biguns, is elected chief. But soon, Jack, another bigun and the head of the choir boys, becomes a savage and revolts against Ralph’s leadership. Soon after this, everything spirals out of control and the tie to society has been completely lost. Therefore, based on the environment surrounding him, Roger’s killing of Piggy was because of his previous life and his surroundings. Roger did not do what he did out of malice, he was forced to. He did everything “with a sense of delirious abandonment” that was forced upon him and followed him through his entire stay on the island …show more content…
This was explained in which “there are, for instance, conditions in which cruelty seems to flourish, which is different from saying it has clear causes. What are these conditions? Chaos is one, fear is another” (Golding). This relates to Roger because he is living in both chaos and fear on the island. All of the boys had the fear of never being rescued, even though they tried to play it off. And, chaos spread through the island as Jack tried to do his own thing with his choir boys, also known as hunters or “savages.” Fear becomes of situations in which one is scared of something to happen or something that might not happen. These boys might not get rescued. Roger just so happened to be the one that chaos and fear affected the most so he had to let out his emotions in some way, shape or