Lord of the Flies | Characters
Ralph, Piggy, Simon, and Jack are the boys most singled out for attention in the novel. As Everyman, a character with both admirable qualities and faults, the boys' chosen leader, Ralph, is caught between two characters representing two sides of human nature, reason and irrational impulses. Piggy, the rationalist, is ridiculous in his assertion that life is scientific and that ghosts and beasts cannot possibly exist because "things wouldn't make sense. Houses an' streets, an' — TV — they wouldn't work," Once Piggy is murdered, the rational view ceases to exist.
Jack, leader of the...
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