Roger Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

“Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones...Percival began to whimper with an eyeful of sand” (Golding 60). In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies Roger is a destructive, evil character. Throughout the novel, he continually increases to show his malicious nature. He is one of the many boys who crash-lands on a deserted island, and are forced to fend for themselves. Of all the boys on the island, while he may not be the craziest or most savage, he is without doubt the most corrupt. He unflinchingly, intentionally throws rocks at Henry who is a littun, one of the younger boys on the island. Roger has always been more vicious than the other boys on the island, and never feels remorse for what he does. While a few of the other characters are fighting, Roger deliberately fires a catapult killing Piggy, the only boy on the island that consistently retains a sense of maturity and civilization. The
The situation in which the boys are in “is a doorway to unlocking genetic traits that are instilled in people from conception” and those traits will stick with people forever (Hegger). Being surrounded by boys who have lost a sense of order and civilization may have slightly influenced Roger’s actions, but what he did is still part of his personality. Not having adults around for supervision plays a role in a person’s characteristics, but it is not the only contributing factor in influencing cruel behavior. Killing Piggy is of Roger’s own will, and part of his conscience. None of the other boys feel compelled to murder other people, and the ones who went crazy and blood thirsty for pigs are initially a bit unhinged. Similarly, Roger is a villainous character from the start and without that one action of him pushing the lever, Piggy’s death could have been entirely