Who Is Roger Telling In Lord Of The Flies

The influence of a corrupted power seeking leader is all it can take for any innocent person to begin to perform savage like behaviors. The author William Golding demonstrates in, The Lord of the Flies, through a group of British boys that become stranded on a deserted island where they are forced to fend for themselves and try to create a stable self-governing system. In specific, Roger illustrates changes on the island; by becoming more violent, as his evil motives turn from innocent to dealthy. Which is shown, as he picks on the younger boys, showing overly-aggressive behavior while hunting, and his final push towards the dark side when he kills piggy.

With an understanding of the inherent darkness in all men and first-hand experience with savagery and violence in World War II, William Golding used Lord of the Flies as not only a historical allegory and a pulpit from which to address the darkness in all men, but also as a metaphor and a example that no one is exempt from human nature. Golding’s characters in Lord of the Flies reflect this idea greatly, but none more so than Roger. Throughout Lord of the Flies, Golding uses the character of Roger to show the follies of mankind and the ability of all people to turn to savagery, as well as the inherent nature of man and society’s internalized acceptance of violence, stemming from Golding’s own experiences with the subject. Golding created

Roger is satanic and also a threat to the boys in Lord of the Files. For example, as the novel progresses roger so does Roger's satanic acts within this following quote "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw" (Golding 62). The six-yard diameter circle that is surrounding Henry is a sign a the society that he has left made by parents, teachers, and other adult influences in his life. By not throwing rocks directly at him shows that he still has a piece of society intract with him. Towards the end in the novel Roger goes to the extremity and kills Piggy. The following quote is about Piggys's death,"Piggy's arms and legs twitched

In the story of The Lord of the Flies Roger shows man is a sign/symbol to show man carries a plague that feeds on our good will to make us cruel and evil in a sense. For example, as the story progresses Roger shows his harsher side “Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round henry”(Golding 62). Within this text I see the story showing the evil within Roger slowly growing darker within the moment, but barely in control only showing a sample of the darkness within growing as the story goes. Perhaps the reason he did not throw the rocks at henry was because his will to remain an innocent was battling the darkness. As the story ends so does Roger’s humanity as seen at the end of the story “Roger found

Lord of the Flies, a gruesome novel wrote by William Golding, has several main characters. One of the main characters that stands out is Roger. Roger is a dark boy who ends up changing the plot near the end of the novel. Roger changed the plot by his actions. Roger is one of the most dynamic characters in the novel and ends up crushing civilization into a million pieces. As a reader, Roger struck me and stood out to me which is why I am choosing to discuss his savagery.

William Golding contends in his novel “Lord of the flies” that the dangers of evil which lurk inside all of us savagery are through the character Roger. When one considers the word savagery, specifically within the frame of william golding’s novel, savagery comes as a result of freedom and no consequences. In the novel when Roger gets stuck on the island he isn’t certainly evil in fact he is a very shy kid . Although as the story progresses we see him descending into it evilness and savagery. We see that when Roger is walking on the beach with mauris after kicking the kids sandcastle, “Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed threw it at henry….threw it to miss.”(Chapter 4) This was a sign of savagery growing inside of him. He wanted to hit

Others might disagree with this because Roger is an antagonist: it is expected for him to be bad, to kill and push the boundaries but I still think he’s terrifying because of how far he’s willing to go and because of the murder of piggy and because Jack doesn’t go as far as Roger even though he’s an antagonist he can’t be called terrifying but Roger can and therefore he adds to the idea that Lord of the flies is a terrifying novel.

World War II’s shocking and brutal battlefields exposed to Golding the sinister nature of humans, which he proves throughout Lord of the Flies. An example of human savagery in the novel is during the dance when “at once the crowd surged after [the beast or Simon], poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore” (153). Encouraged by the chant and the excitement following painting each other’s faces, the children fiercely attack Simon. The islanders forget how to restrain themselves; they lose their childlike, lighthearted nature that is prominent at the beginning of the novel and they transform into barbarians because they are intensely killing and slaughtering Simon. Striking Simon, the boys are alarmingly malevolent, corresponding to Golding’s belief of humans in their natural state as evil. Further, savagery is present when the novel describes that “Roger ceased to be a pig and became a hunter…[there was] the throb and stamp of a single organism (152). Golding chooses here to show the inhumane part of humans themselves. Specifically, he characterizes Roger as monstrous as he does not refer to him as a human being while the boys rejoice in the circle. Golding begins the demonization of the kids who are the only humans on the island and it

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

There are many laws and unspoken and logical rules that keep society civil. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, Roger finds himself throwing minuscule stones at the younger boys, however missing them, due to the conditioning of society. This is a result of the little boys being protected by policemen, parents, school and the law. It is also evident and true that there are other factors that allow for civility to prosper in humanity, some of which are present on the island with the boys, but some factors are extremely scarce. But it is when these factors are mostly absent or diminish, that the idea and foundation of civilization will weaken or fade. William Golding allows symbols to show a complex, yet beautiful and convincing transition from a theme of civility and order, to one of savagery and also moral depravity. The reason for this new theme being that the boys are faced with an internal danger; the true nature of humanity, which fuels the drastic change from innocent boys who abide by rules to rabid animals. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, while the conch symbol best conveys the influence of the adult world on the boys, the conch symbol, paired with the pig hunt motif best conveys the theme of regression into savagery.

In Lord of the Flies, the boys are all stranded without any supervision, meaning they don’t have their parents to help and guide them. In the article ““Why Boys Become Vicious,” by William Golding he talks about how he believes that without parents boys become “vicious.” Golding believes that Young male Roots lead back to when men were hunters and killers which are very different than the beginning of females.The effect of no adult supervision on the island shapes the boy's characters in the book and manipulates their actions. Maurice and Roger, who felt superior over the younger boys, because of age, went out of their way to mess with the youngins. Roger continuously shows his cruelty to the boys. “Roger gathered a handful of stones and began

In the article, it expresses that "Adolescents who share antisocial tendencies...are more likely to search for social identity in gangs". In the 'Lord of the Flies' case, there were groups that could be considered tribes, like Ralph's group, but more recently Jack's own. In chapter one, Roger was described as "...a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy". He was like this while Ralph still had control as chief, however throughout the book we see a development in character within him. In chapter eleven, we see that Jack had given him the job of keeping watch. After encountering Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric, we notice that savagery has gotten the best of him when he decides to commit a crime without a care in the world. The quote "High over head, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever...the rock struck Piggy...Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea" shows Roger's cruel and true nature shortly after joining Jack's tribe. As the article says, he looked for his own identity in Jack's tribe, and found it to be very violent and harmful to those around

The boys could continue attempting a harmonious lifestyle, balancing the advantages and disadvantages amongst the group, or the boys could individually grasp the bull by the horns, taking what each individual boy believes they deserve in return for of the possible misery of those around them. With rules aside, Lord of the Flies boils down to a battle of purely good versus evil. Since the boys were built with a preconceived notion of evil, the darker side of their conscience rose supreme. Jack’s envy and bloodthirst combine to devise a horrific plan, causing the boys to alter sides in an attempt to kill Ralph, stripping him from his reigning potential. Jack manipulates the boys, convincing them to turn on their own leader and leaving him mostly in the dark until Sameneric finally confirm to Ralph that “They are going to hunt [him] tomorrow” (271). Jack lets his envy build up until sin overrides his conscience as Jack becomes corrupt, destined to take leadership by committing murder, a release for both desires, driven by wrath and envy. Roger on the other hand, uses his potential for evil as demonstrated earlier in the novel, in a newfound and more fatal way. Roger commits murder, and seems to enjoy it as he presses a lever “with a delirious sense of abandonment” (260) to send a rock spiraling down to come crashing into Piggy sending him to untimely

Roger's murderous nature, Ralph and Piggy’s submissiveness to savagery, and Hitler’s cunning and manipulative ways all prove the message Golding conveys in his novel, Lord of the Flies, to be true: men are inherently evil. Roger’s sociopathic tendencies, which eventually result in the slaughter of the young boy, Piggy, expose the fact that men are born evil. The surprisingly rapid and thoughtless descent into murder that Ralph and Piggy experience, showcases people’s ability to be easily swayed to commit heinous acts. Furthermore, the Holocaust, as well as the crazed intelligence behind it, are additional examples that humans often fall victim to the wickedness inside them. Hopefully, future generations will be able to rebel against human

In Lord of the Flies, it was Roger who was the first to realize that the social