Roger Lord Of The Flies Analysis

In the words of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.” In other words, humans harbor an ever present looming evil nature within themselves. Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin, or the wicked or immoral part of someone. This concept of inner evil rising to the surface permeates William Golding’s dystopian novel Lord of the Flies, that evil exists in every human, proven through the characterization of the marooned boys. There is foreshadowing of the dangers of the boys’ inner immorality from one of the boys, Simon. As the novel progresses, evil starts asserts itself as the boys cast off their innocence and humanity, and turning against each other. Even the

what he did to the mother pig. Roger is just a worse version of Jack and like

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

Over the summer we all read the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding and had to put of with the one called Jack. In nearly every book there is a so called villain or bad guy to make the story more interesting and eventful, and Jack is just that character. There are many words to describe jack but my word is superior. over all. Throughout the story you start to understand Jacks’s horrid personality and actions which leaves me to believe the best word to describe jack is ¨wicked¨.

In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph sees himself as civilized, responsible, and a leader. Ralph sees himself as civilized because while on the island he tries to create order and rule. Ralph speaks to all of 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 here as down there" (Golding 420). Ralph tells the boys that there will be rules and that they need to follow them. Ralph's civilization kicks in at this moment by commanding rules and order. Ralph also views himself as responsible. Throughout his time on the island Ralph tries his best to make good decisions, not only for himself, but for all the boys. Even when has

“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.

Roger demonstrates his own power at the begin of chapter 4 of the book lord of the flies, and experiences powers pushing back against him. In Lord of the flies, William Golding is describing Roger by saying, “Seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable,” (60). The reason why this shows he wants power is in the struggle for power is the William Golding decried roger by his face in this part of the book. In Lord of the flies, William Golding said, “Roger led the way straight through the castle, kicking them over,” (60). This shows that Roger thinks that he is boss to the littuns since that his older to them. But on the other hand Maurice feels that what Roger did was wrong and so does Roger. In the book Lord

“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.

Louis Pojman believes that the purpose of morality is to maintain order. He explains specifically that morality will keep society from falling apart, ameliorate human suffering, promote human flourishing, resolve conflicts in an orderly way, assign praise and blame, and reward the good while punishing the bad. In the movie Lord of the Flies, based on the novel by William Golding, Ralph, the original leader of the plane wrecked boy’s attempts to keep order by using the conch found on the island. Throughout the movie, as well as the book, there is a struggle to maintain order based on the concept of what is right and wrong, morality. From the taking of Piggy’s glasses to the lose of the fire several times, they all are questionable instances

Society is now very clearly out of the equation. For Roger, that means he gets unleash his true persona, the barbaric sociopath. When Jack and his hunters killed the sow, “Roger began to withdraw his spear and the boys noticed it for the first time. Robert stabilizing and the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously. ‘Right up her ass!’” (135). Clearly Roger has become disturbed. When Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric attempt to go to Castle Rock to get Piggy’s glasses back, Roger lets go of a lever which releases a big rock and “struck Piggy a glancing blow from the chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (181). Not only does it show how Roger has become the barbaric sociopath by having a big rock kill his peers, but symbolically this is important as well. The conch, which is symbolized as society or the old life, is destroyed by Roger, which Goulding purposely included to show Roger’s rejection of society's values. Roger in this moment has truly lifted the mask and become his original persona. This is very clearly showing when Roger begins torturing the twins Samneric. “...cries of pain from Samneric, cries of panic, angry voices”

He feels even more power when he, “leaned all his weight on the lever” (180), causing the rock to tumble towards Piggy, and cause him to, “[fall] forty feet and landed on his back” (181). This is the climax of what Roger has become on the island, as well as the kind of person Roger ended up as; for there was no clear reason why Roger needed to kill Piggy. That he found satisfaction in the torment that he enjoys to put on the other boys, but has taken too far. Since no one seems to tell him of his wrongs, "Roger sharpened the stick at both ends" (190). The double headed spear that Roger creates shows how disturbed Roger has become, and how he plans to kill Ralph. He is no longer held back by civilization, He is savage and crazy for

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

The savages on the island, Jack's boys, would steal Piggy's glasses, robbing him of his sight, which would be the cause of his death. Rather than stealing the conch, a symbol of unity and authority, the savages would steal the only source of rescue, Piggy’s glasses. Leading up to his death, Piggy would only “want [his] glasses”, an inanimate object capable of both rescue and destruction (Golding 197). Representing one's true inner evil, Roger would purposefully kill the only remaining stalwart of the conch. In the moment that “Roger, [would] [lean] all his weight on the lever” that would send Piggy to his death, he is no longer bound to a society of law (Golding 209). Going from throwing rocks aimed to miss at Henry, to rolling a boulder and killing Piggy, Roger represents true ruthlessness in this novel. Lost within his realm of immoral sanctity, Jack would publicize that things would only go downhill after Piggy's sadistic murder. For he would state that “that's what you’ll get” to all who stand by him, Jack then “viciously, with full intention, [hurls] his spear at Ralph” (Golding 209). Catching him with true aim over the ribs, Ralph would realize that there is no more civility on the island, that all hope had been lost. Ralph would learn the hard way that the boys were no longer boys, but rather savages borne from the creation of all evil and fear in one's

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.

Roger is just an evil, bully in the story, who does evil things to innocent people. "Roger stopped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry" (page 64). Henry is not doing anything wrong, there is no reason for Roger to throw the rocks at Henry, which is evil because he is picking on him and picking on people is evil. In addition, Roger is the one who literally killed Piggy, "High overhead, Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever" (page 180). Piggy is not an evil person, but Roger kills him anyway not caring about any of the other boys mentally or physically. As a result, Roger by far has the most evil in