In William Golding’s Lord Of The Flies, characters and symbols display the different feelings and actions of all the boys on the island.
Ralph exists as the protagonist of this novel. He begins overjoyed by the fact that they are stranded on an island free from adult supervision. He soon accepts leadership when forced upon him. He manifests leadership and proper intelligence using the conch shell to display his authority. Since the commencement of the crash, Ralph takes control of the group and has natural born leader skills. He originates all the meetings and and the fire. Ralph's leadership exhibits when he becomes elected leader by the boys. He works a strenuous effort to keep the boys calm and under control. Ralph retains courage when
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"He bound himself together with his will,fused his fear and loathing into a hatred,and stood up" (123 Golding). When the calamity begins by the sight of the dead parachute man in the trees on the mountain, Ralph takes it in his hands to keep the group focused on trying to get rescued. For Ralph, being chief acts upon leading people without selfishness or greed. Ralph walks upon the island and ponders ”The trouble is, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.” (78 Golding). Ralph secretly longs for a world with regulation from adults. He dreams of rescue and demands the fire to be lit consistently. While befriending Piggy, he learns to have dependence on his intellectual benefits. The savagery in the boys become more evident as time progresses. Ralph knows the basis of this situation exists because of Jack. In the origin of savagery, Ralph holds on to sanity and hope of being rescued. Ralph ultimately accepts the descent of mankind