Roger Lord Of The Flies Analysis

Australian society has ultimately rejected the idea of the practice of capital punishment making a return into the Australian law books. However, events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Bali bombings have ensured that the spotlight once again shines on the controversial subject. I am in favour of the practice returning to Australia for heinous crimes such as murder, child molestation, serial rapists, and people who commit acts of animal cruelty. This is because:

“When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed”(Rand). This was stated by Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand; the extract relates to the novel William Golding wrote called Lord of the Flies. Golding wrote about a group of schoolboys trapped on an island from a plane crash. The boys had to figure out how to survive without grownups. Trying to survive was difficult because they had to have common sense and order. They lose those traits throughout the book which resulted in selfishness and corrupt behaviors.

The Character of Roger is portrayed in the book as one of the antagonists, but not main one as is Jack is. When the reader is first introduced to Roger he is described as a boy with “black hair...[that] seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what seemed” to be “an unsociable remoteness” now look like a boy full of “forbidding”(Golding 60). This first moment of meeting Roger shows the reader that this character will not be the savior, but rather one of the causes of destruction. Not only is it shown in Rogers appearance that he is one of the villains, but after being on the Island without authority for a short period of time it comes to light that he has a darker side when he is shown to be intentionally trying to hurt one of the boys; “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed/ and threw it at Henry, (Golding 62).” When Roger is throwing rocks at Henry, he does it in a way where he is hidden so that the younger boy is not fully aware of what is happening and finds it to be a sort of game.

What went wrong in the Lord of the Flies? Some may say Jack and some may say Roger, but what are the real reasons for the downfall of the boys? They are, the loss of hope, the loss of order, and the passing of time.

     The character of Roger is also an id but he is a satanic killer. Unlike

During the first few weeks of arriving on the island, Roger seemed to have maintained a civilized life by not hitting Henry. However it is only matter of time before savagery takes over Roger, for instance he purposely leans on the rock above Piggy crushing the conch and killing Piggy, “high overhead, Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever” (Golding 200). Killing Piggy was not civil of Rodger. Also the boys are so influenced by savagery that they are ready to kill Ralph and make him the offering for the beast, ‘they hate you, Ralph.

Society has been created to maintain structure and organization in human lives. Humans are able lead successful lives because of society. But deep down, their primitive ways of living and thinking are still there. When society is taken away, people are unable to keep their innocence because of the challenges they face in harsh circumstances. This is demonstrated in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. The novel addresses that when placed in environments free of laws and organization, people lose the desire to remain civilized. William Golding uses Piggy, a naive and trusting boy, to show that having order, laws, and structure is better than resorting to a primitive lifestyle.

Once Roger leaves Ralph’s group he is manipulated by Jack, and he joins his group, so Jack can tell him whatever he wants him to do. Jack, Roger and another hunter one night went and attacked Ralph and Piggy and stole Piggy’s glasses. Ralph and Piggy went to Jack’s camp site to try and peacefully retrieve them. As Ralph and Piggy are walking up to Jacks camp, Roger and other boys are waiting for them as guards. “Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever. Below him Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat” (Golding 180). This quote shows that Roger views these two human beings as targets. When they arrived on the island, he was a peaceful boy who was in the choir, who is now so brainwashed by Jack and savagery that he kills Piggy. The island would have brought out the evil in all of them on its own, but Jack sped up the

He “led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones,” only to remain, “watching the littluns.” Maurice, however, “still felt the unease of wrongdoing.” Jack’s only fault was yearning for power, which corrupts those who wield it. Roger is corrupted and malevolent without ever thirsting for this power, and is therefore more evil than Jack. Roger keeps to himself, much like Simon, and remains consistently evil throughout the novel. Near the beginning, he “picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss,” held back by “the taboo of the old life.” Later, he did not miss and “with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” releasing a huge boulder and killing Piggy. Under the weight of the boulder, “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” The main symbol for the democracy, equality and justice was indirectly destroyed by Roger. To him, “Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat,” thus dehumanizing and objectifying them. When Sam and Eric were cornered by Jack’s group of savages, Roger demonstrates his enjoyment for hurting others by “[advancing] upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.” It was not for the sake of supremacy or control, but for unbridled sadistic pleasure. When Ralph finds Sam and Eric, they say that Roger is “a terror”. He also points out that Jack is a terror, but the twins respond with “only

Roger is not guilty of killing Piggy. Due to the environment around him and his age, he lacks an understanding of what he is doing and the consequences that come with it. People may say that no matter what the circumstances are he still killed a person, but Roger is not aware that the boulder he accidently releases will lead to the death of Piggy. He is not in the correct mindset to be dealing with these problems and does not have the knowledge to know what is right from wrong. Roger is a naive child influenced by what he sees around

Rudeness effects everyone at some point in their everyday lives. What is rudeness? How can rudeness effect people? What are the causes of rudeness? Many people do not realize how much rudeness can effect you mentally and emotionally.

After being on the island for a long time, the boys start to become uncivilized too. After Roger already becomes a criminal by aiding in the murder of a boy, Simon, he murders Piggy on his own. Roger understood that he was committing murder, so he should be fully responsible for his actions. What Roger did is unacceptable, he murdered someone by choice. Because even though “We are born with evil in us...

Although not mentioned much at the start of the novel, by the end, Roger becomes Jack’s right-hand man. The following quote best captures Roger’s merciless savagery, Golding writes, “‘High overhead, Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever… The rock struck Piggy a gleaning blow from chin to knee… the body of Piggy was gone.”’(Golding 181). Roger, in this scene, murders Piggy in cold blood. Roger clearly knows it is wrong to kill; but, with “abandonment” pushed the rock. Roger, who was first seen throwing stones at Henry, throws the rocks in the area around Henry. This demonstrates that he still has traces of civilization left and that the thought of rules exist. Roger; although, slowly afterwards loses most of his civilization. Once again seen with Jack after they kill the mother pig, Roger, tortures the pig with no remorse. During this sick scene, Roger stabs the pig in whatever place he can find. After all of this, the first thing Roger asks is how are we going to cook it. Finally, when Roger kills Piggy he reaches his final transformation into savagery; therefore, without parental supervision, Roger’s extremely corrupt human nature emerges. Along with Roger’s exhibition of corruptness, Ralph also displays the true human

“We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we 're capable of” (Phil McGraw) one once said. In Lord of the Flies the characters wear a social mask that opposes their true feelings. Written by William Golding, the story revolves around a group of boys who become stranded on an island and must depend on themselves to survive. They elect a chief, a boy named Ralph. However, as the story progresses, the group become influenced by Jack, an arrogant choir chapter boy. Intriguingly, although they desire to be with Jack and join his tribe, the boys remain with Ralph for most of the story. The rhetorical triangle, which analyzes a speaker or writer based on three ideas- ethos, pathos, and logos-, helps many to better understand the children’s actions and mentality; ethos focuses on the credibility and ethics of the speaker while pathos concerns how the speaker appeals to the emotions of the audience and logos is about the speaker’s use of evidence to appeal to the audience’s sense of reason. The boys stay with Ralph because of Ralph’s use of ethos but prefer to be with Jack because of Jack’s use of pathos and ethos which shows Golding’s message- humans were masks.

Gun laws are the cause for much of the violent crime in the United States and need to be changed by enforcing and assembling stricter regulations, allowing more concealed carries for protection, and educating Americans about firearms to reduce mass panic. Over the course of our history American has suffered from a substantial number of mass shootings; Columbine in Littleton, CO, Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C, Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT. These mass shootings are just one side of the gun violence in America. There are also drive-bys, accidental shootings, and many other types of gun crimes. And these are all happening in different parts of the country and in different periods of time. They are tragedies that affect not only the people but our nation as a whole.