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Lord of the flies - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Piggy represents the scientific and rational side of humanity, supporting Ralph’s signal fires and helping to problem solve on the island.
- - - - Ralph is the primary representative of order, he represents human beings’ civilizing instinct, productive leadership as opposed to the savage instinct that Jack embodies.
- - - - Simon represents a contrary idea of essential human goodness, he embodies a kind of innate and spiritual human goodness that is deeply connected with nature and, in its own way, as primal as Jack’s evil.
- - - - The strong-willed, egomaniacal Jack is the novel’s primary representative of the instinct of savagery, violence, and the desire for power—in short, the antithesis of Ralph.
- - - - Roger gives into the “delirious abandonment” of senseless violence when he releases the boulder that kills Piggy.
- - - - Samneric represents the childhood, since they're easily excited, regularly finish one another’s sentences, and exist within their own small group of two.