Ralph And Jack Character Analysis

In the beginning, both Ralph and Jack are puerile. However the main difference between Ralph and Jack is that Ralph is a dynamic character, who matures as the story progresses, and Jack is a static character, who remains naive for the entirety of the novel. An example of Ralph’s immaturity, “‘He’s not fatty,’ cried Ralph, “his real name’s Piggy!” (Golding 21). After Piggy begged Ralph not to tell anyone that he used to be called Piggy, Ralph tells everyone that Piggy is his real name. As the story proceeds, Ralph starts to defend Piggy, “Ralph made a step forward” (Golding 71) and “That was a dirty trick,” (Golding 72). These quotes depicts Ralph standing up for Piggy after Jack punched Piggy for berating him about letting the fire cease. “‘He’s
“‘Of course we’re frightened sometimes but we put up with being frightened…The thing is—fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream,” (Golding 82). The littluns were afraid of the island and what might attack them; therefore, their subconscious mind invented a beast in their dreams, that of which creeped into their conscious thought, resulting in the creation of the beast. The littluns told the biguns there was a beast on the island that they all had seen. So, because the biguns are still children themselves, the suggestion of such a creature on the island with them was too frightening for them not to consider. Everyone is afraid of something and the beast is the personification of the boys’ fear.
The lord of the flies represents the boys’ turn to savagery. Their fear provoked them to revert to their truculent nature and allowed the Id to control their decisions. “Maybe there is a beast...maybe it’s only us” (Golding 89). The author created the lord of the flies to be the Beelzebub, a greek devil to represent decay, destruction, demoralization, hysteria, and panic; all of which are present in the novel. Through this novel, the author is trying to demonstrate the wicked nature of humans, how we are perniciously affect everything we