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Lord of the Flies (Characters (Jack ("HIs face was crumpled and…
Lord of the Flies
Characters
Ralph
"You could see he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness in the shoulder went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil."
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"There was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size and attractive appearance."
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Jack
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he shows no remorse for piggys death. and he calls hiself chief and has lost the name jack which shows that he has lost it all.
Roger
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"The shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and make what had seemed at first unsociable remoteness in to something foreboding"
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he is cruel. he deliberately destroys the littleuns games, and then at the end of the book he relish's is sharpening a stick at both ends to kill ralph with.
he becomes jacks right-hand man, and they torture Samneric together to find ralphs hiding place.
he also levers the rock that kills piggy on his own initiative he is an executioner because he "carried death in his hands"
Piggy
He has physical disadvantages because he is fat and asthmatic and is shortsighted, without his glasses everything becomes a blur.
he is very intelligent, he is the one ho suggests that no adult knows that they are on the island and that they should make a list of names and that they should make a sundial and a hat.
"Piggy, for all his ludicrous body had brains."
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"Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination to manual labour"
he is embarrassed by his nickname, and he behaves with dignity when ralph betrays him and tells everyone else his nickname not his real name.
at the end of the novel ralph finally relises how clever piggy actually was and that he had lost "the true, wise friend called piggy"
Context
William Golding
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he worked as an actor, producer and writer, and then as a teacher in a boys school
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Desert Islands
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however Golding knew that the idyllic life of coral island would never exist and lord of the flies was his interpretation of what would happen if boys were left on a island
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characters
Simon
when we first meet Simon he is in his choir robes and he faints on the beach because of the heat and jack mocks him from this we can tell that he is delicate
"a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and course"
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he has "a secret place in a clearing full of flowers and butterflies" and his is a one with nature and he has no fear.
When lord of the flies speaks to him this idea is reiterated: the voice in Simons head says "Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hut and kill!...You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?"
He is the only one to see that the problems on the island stem from the boys relationships with each other, not from an outside force. Yet nobody understands what he is trying to say.
even after Simons death his relationship with nature still carries on: "The waves turned the copse gently in the water... Softly, surrounded by a fringe of bright inquisitive creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellation, Simon's dead body moved out towards the open sea"
Sam and Eric (Samneric)
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"They were twins and the eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication. They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital."
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