Ralph's Attitudes In Lord Of The Flies

William Golding the author of the novel Lord of the Flies, told an emotional story with believable circumstances that held the reader's attention. All of Golding’s characters went through many developments throughout the story which allowed the reader to get a good visual of what was happening. Golding also kept certain character traits constituent throughout the novel. Especially for the 4 main characters of the book Ralph, Jack, Simon, and Piggy. William Golding uses Ralph's speech, thoughts, and actions to reveal his incompetent attitude.

Firstly Ralph’s attitude was shown to be incompetent throughout the novel through his speech. This is shown when Piggy says, “ ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Ralph’ The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn

Ralph shows this when he aggressively, “launched himself like a cat, stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up”(Golding 195). Ralph loses himself completely to his animalistic instincts and attempts to pounce on and murder one of the boys that he once tried to lead. Ralph shows that in this life-or-death situation, he lacks the willpower to keep his head on straight and do what would buy him the most time to escape. Instead, he loses all reason and just throws himself at the boys while standing at him instead of stabbing him in the leg and running. Ralph shows his incompetence once more during an argument with the other boys. After some time of bickering Ralph, “shouted against the noise ‘Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”(Golding 180). Ralph is trying to calm down himself and each and every other boy on the island at the time, but instead of trying to approach them calmly Ralph goes home making demands. Ralph's lack of thinking skills could would cost lives because of his incompetence. Instead of going to the almost savage boys and asking for the fire and keeping a level head, he goes to the savages asks for the fire, and then fights with them. If Ralph was more confident in his ability’s to defuse a situation without violence he could have saved