Roger The Savage In Lord Of The Flies
Roger the Savage
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Roger is arguably the most savage and sadistic boy in the novel. On the contrary many people fail to mention that Roger begins the novel being relatively civil. Nevertheless he is constantly on the slippery slope of savagery on an island consisting completely of boys below the age of 14. For this reason Roger is one of the most important characters in the novel as he represents the darkness within humanity, and how quickly it can awaken. When the boys first drive to the novel they are all quite civil, and Roger contributes to this, once all of the boys had met “[t]he dark boy Roger…spoke up. [saying] ‘Let’s have a vote”’(28). If Roger had come to the island as a devil child, he would …show more content…
In addition to savagely killing a pig he killed a human and enjoyed it. In the last chapter “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on the lever…the rock struck Piggy…[and] the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments”(260). At this point in the novel Roger is in fact sadistic, he kills an innocent boy and feels no remorse. He is the first on the novel to kill a human being intentionally, one could probably even call him a sociopath as he shows no regard to human emotion or life. It is at this moment that Roger becomes the ‘beastie’ and the most savage on the island. Simon had mentioned earlier in the novel that the darkness was within the boys and this is truly what he conceived. Roger does not stop after this, in fact he “‘sharpened a stick at both ends”’(273). This saying with the context of a hunt for Ralph, refers to a stick that will be used to mount a head. This further proves the theory that Roger is a sociopath because he intends on treating Ralph like a pig. Not to mention the he sees Ralph as on the same level as a filthy pig. Roger sees killing as a game, and life as a
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Roger is arguably the most savage and sadistic boy in the novel. On the contrary many people fail to mention that Roger begins the novel being relatively civil. Nevertheless he is constantly on the slippery slope of savagery on an island consisting completely of boys below the age of 14. For this reason Roger is one of the most important characters in the novel as he represents the darkness within humanity, and how quickly it can awaken. When the boys first drive to the novel they are all quite civil, and Roger contributes to this, once all of the boys had met “[t]he dark boy Roger…spoke up. [saying] ‘Let’s have a vote”’(28). If Roger had come to the island as a devil child, he would …show more content…
In addition to savagely killing a pig he killed a human and enjoyed it. In the last chapter “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on the lever…the rock struck Piggy…[and] the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments”(260). At this point in the novel Roger is in fact sadistic, he kills an innocent boy and feels no remorse. He is the first on the novel to kill a human being intentionally, one could probably even call him a sociopath as he shows no regard to human emotion or life. It is at this moment that Roger becomes the ‘beastie’ and the most savage on the island. Simon had mentioned earlier in the novel that the darkness was within the boys and this is truly what he conceived. Roger does not stop after this, in fact he “‘sharpened a stick at both ends”’(273). This saying with the context of a hunt for Ralph, refers to a stick that will be used to mount a head. This further proves the theory that Roger is a sociopath because he intends on treating Ralph like a pig. Not to mention the he sees Ralph as on the same level as a filthy pig. Roger sees killing as a game, and life as a