William Golding Lord Of The Flies Text Response Essay

Name of student : Ethan Doeg
Text Type - Title and Author : Lord of the Flies by William Golding

In the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, a common theme shown throughout the text is the balance between good and evil inside of every human being. This story is more or less a tale of good vs evil, order vs chaos etc. This conflict is shown in the form of the two main character. Ralph, who is seen as a kind but assertive leader, who is orginally “voted in” as the leader of the pack of boys, and Jack, who is seen from the start as a very aggressive person who is only interested in hunting, forms his own tribe, who are very violent and malicious towards anything and everything. This text is allegorical, which means that many themes or ideas are carried in the forms of characters and objects, the main two I will be focusing on is the antagonist and

The first concept that portrays this theme is the character of Ralph. From the very beginning of the novel, he is seen as the clear leader of all the boys, which is represented in the fact of him getting voted to be the leader at the election the boys have to decide on who will lead them. An example of how Ralph is seen as a leader of the boys at the beginning of the story is “‘Fire on the Mountain.’ Ralph tells the boys, ‘If we have a signal going, they'll come and take us off. And another thing. We ought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that's a meeting. The same up here as down there.’” This is said by Ralph in chapter 2, and this quote shows that he has taken initiative to help keep order within the group of boys, and is also thinking of ways to get them rescued sooner rather than later, which is what any good leader in this situation would do. He is the protagonist of this novel, and is seen as the representation of law and order as such, as he is one of the