True Colors In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

Original Title “Goodness is something chosen”. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”-Anthony Burgess. This connects to the novel Lord of The Flies, written by William Golding, is about a group of boys from the ages of six to twelve who are stranded on a deserted island. While stranded on the island, they had to fend for themselves, which caused all the boys to do devilish things. Throughout the novel, we see characters being tortured, killed, or become savages. Therefore, the author is making a point in this book that no matter the circumstances, evil and good will show their true colors. Jack is a devilish character. Throughout the story, Jack was constantly being mean to the boys throughout the book and as we went further into

Ralph is the leader of all the boys, and within the novel we see him as both a good and evil character and we see the bit of struggle between both throughout the whole novel. “You let the fire go out.”- (Golding 69). Ralph is upset about Jack letting the fire go out because he was out hunting instead of doing the job he said he would and stopping them from being recused from the island, which was Ralph’s biggest concern. “I hit him said Ralph again and the spear struck in a bit.”- (Golding 113) Ralph had just stabbed a boar, and he just kept talking about it and ignoring everything else even when they saw that Jack had got hurt from it he kept trying to grab everyone’s attention instead of worrying about his friend, In this novel he does these things continuously especially to piggy where at the start of the novel he promises piggy not to tell everyone his name is piggy but he does and he bullies him with everyone else in the book too but He doesn’t do it as much. This all ties to how Ralph is a morally grey character but in the end, he became good and risked his life for his friends. This novel displays both good and evil characters like Piggy, Ralph. Simon, and