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William Golding's Lord Of The Flies: Character Analysis

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Ralph, the voice of reason. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, the main characters of the book Lord of the Flies. Each character represents a type of person in today’s world, but these three represent the types of leaders we have in our world. Ralph, being the main focus of the paper, represents the leaders in today’s world who want what is best for everyone. This doesn’t always mean that people will be up for what the leaders tell them they need to do. This same thing happens in Lord of the Flies with Ralph. Ralph stands for leaders in society who are trying to make the world better. He is the one who is telling the group what they need to do to survive. Piggy is the brains of the operation who know what they need to do to survive, but Ralph is the one everybody listens to. They both know that they need to have a fire in order for a passing ship to hopefully see them. They also know they need to build shelters in case another storm is to come, and they would need someplace to go for that. He even puts schedules in place to keep the fire going and for people to help him build the shelters. …show more content…

All of the other boys on the island just want to lay around and goof off and not do any work. If it is not convenient for the boys to do it then, then they don’t want to do it. Even if it means that they may not survive on the island. They still want to do what feels good and is easiest for them to do. The same goes for members of today’s society. If it is not convenient for us to do. Then people are more likely not going to do it. Even if it means you may not survive. Scientist keep telling us that we should not keep burning fossil fuels much longer and that we need to go to renewable energy, but it isn’t very convenient for people to do that. Even though it is killing our planet and we are slowly destroying it and ourselves, we don’t want to do what is to difficult for us to

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