Personality In Lord Of The Flies

In the novel, Lord of the flies by William Golding characters have clashing personalities. To deal with this clash and to fit in with their fellow tribe members the assume a persona. Ralph puts on this mask to seem more violent and uncivilized, like all the other boys on the island except Piggy. It is proven at the end of the novel that this is just a persona and not a complete change in character when Ralph begins to weep at the thought of being rescued by a naval officer and going home at last. After Ralph assumes his persona as an angry savage he begins to perform act unlike his true personality as it is hidden by this mask. An example of this is when Ralph goes out with the choir to hunt a pig. The group comes across a pig and he get