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Lord of the Flies Character Profiles - Coggle Diagram
Lord of the Flies Character Profiles
Jack
Ralph
The main character of the novel
Democratically elected leader of the island
Piggy
A symbol of rational and science
Despite being the smartest in the group, he is often mistreated and bullied by boys on the island
In the opening description, Piggy is described as: Plump, greasy and fat
Contrasts with the athletic build of Ralph
Holds a class difference, using non standard English 'What's grown ups going to think?"
Is obviously intimidated by confident and socially superior characters such as Ralph and Jack
His family's 'tradesman' livelihood and bad English were both things heavily derided at the time the book was published.
"I know about people. I know about me. And him. He can't hurt you: but if you stand out of the way he'll hurt the next thing. And that's me"-Chapter 5
Golding was also like Piggy, in the way he seemed to be intimidated and felt inadequate compared to higher class Englishman, as reported
Piggy, despite his intelligence, seems to be irrationally overly trustful of adults around him
"What are we? Humans? Or Animals? Or Savages? What's grown-ups going to think?"
He fails to realise that while the boys should stay civilised, the adults are already involved in a savage conflict of their own through nuclear war, so behaving to their standards is unreasonable
Piggy also has in many cases an overly scientific mindset, which can bring him down
"He was gesticulating, search for a formula"- Chapter 9, when Simon is accidentally murdered
This overly scientific mindset displays a level of binary mindset from Piggy, which in some cases just isn't useful.
"I thought they wanted the conch"-Chapter 10, when Jack's tribe steals Piggy's glasses
Displays a lack of understanding of people, why would they want the conch? Jack has stated a distaste for the conch, something Piggy would've understood if he knew people
Piggy's belief in science meant he couldn't understand the true nature of the beast
Fails to understand Simon, who represents spirituality, due to his 'unfounded trust in a rational universe administered by a rational man
Simon
Character description
'Now that the pallor of his faint was over, he was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and coarse'
Also very short, supposedly places himself in the middle of Ralph and Jack when the three are walking so they can talk over his head, and has to double shuffle to catch up