Lord of the Flies Characters
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Each British boys are a symbol that represents in ourself and also in our society, these are follow boys; Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack are the four main characters that represents a lot in our society that we can learn from. William Golding represents the boys in a very good way, to explain to the readers how the world around us is seen through the characters of those four boys.
Jack in the novel is one of the main antagonist, that represents the evil and violence in our society and also in us as a human, in the novel jack is shown as a violent character who is blood thirsty who doesn't have any self conscience to feel sorry. Golding is trying to teach us that we us humans in our society have evils inside of us and that evil can sometime take over our good side making us into savage people, shown in the novel. The Island attempts to demonstrate that humans are born good at heart and that evil is an external force present in the world which tempts once innocent people. Lord of the Flies takes the opposite view: that evil comes from within. Golding's message is that human nature has a wicked side and that without punishments to keep it in check society would degenerate into a barbaric anarchy. Lord of the Flies illustrates this theme through the story of a group of boys stranded on an island who must overcome not only the natural difficulties presented by the island but also the difficulties presented by their own inherent human nature. But the character in the film, "Jack" turns into what Golding was trying to explain to our society, a savage person who trumps over the goodness in our human society. From the beginning of the novel, Jack desires power above all other things.
Lord of the Flies is an allegorical novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British school-boys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results. Each British boys are a symbol that represents in ourself and also in our society, these are follow boys; Ralph, Piggy, Simon and Jack are the four main characters that represents a lot in our society that we can learn from. William Golding represents the boys in a very good way, to explain to the readers how the world around us is seen through the characters of those four boys.
Jack in the novel is one of the main antagonist, that represents the evil and violence in our society and also in us as a human, in the novel jack is shown as a violent character who is blood thirsty who doesn't have any self conscience to feel sorry. Golding is trying to teach us that we us humans in our society have evils inside of us and that evil can sometime take over our good side making us into savage people, shown in the novel. The Island attempts to demonstrate that humans are born good at heart and that evil is an external force present in the world which tempts once innocent people. Lord of the Flies takes the opposite view: that evil comes from within. Golding's message is that human nature has a wicked side and that without punishments to keep it in check society would degenerate into a barbaric anarchy. Lord of the Flies illustrates this theme through the story of a group of boys stranded on an island who must overcome not only the natural difficulties presented by the island but also the difficulties presented by their own inherent human nature. But the character in the film, "Jack" turns into what Golding was trying to explain to our society, a savage person who trumps over the goodness in our human society. From the beginning of the novel, Jack desires power above all other things.