Ralph Fiennes

readers are introduced to in William Golding's Lord of the Flies is Ralph, a young British boy with fair skin and an athletic build. Ralph is shown to have a child like personality at first; the first thing he does is strip and run into the ocean to swim, and as he looks around he is excited by the prospect of his very own undiscovered island without adults around. However, despite the childish and innocent side of his personality, Ralph is a natural leader and is quickly elected as such by the boys on

specifically, Golding displays through the character Ralph; the phases of psychological maturity. Ralph throughout his experiences on the island will progress and digress in maturity. Ralph will begin as a carefree, innocent child—happy to be away from constraints of society. However, through certain events, Ralph will grow to become a leader and choose to stay morally good, while the boys around him digress in evil. More specifically, events that illustrate Ralphs, responsibility, assertiveness, honesty, detachment

aspects of the island and mans impact on it? During chapter 1 Golding portrays the island and mans impact on it in both positive and negative ways. He also uses many literary devices when showing these aspects. The first positive image is shown when ralph describes the granite as being “Like icing” “on a pink cake” the colour pink in this similie presents beauty and happiness and “icing” reinforces the happiness. However this could be interpreted negatively as the hunger of the boys at this time. Additionally

savagery is Ralph who because of his continual battle for power with Jack, uses violence to settle disputes, contributes to the killing of Simon, and emulates a wild animal to survive. Roger who rejects the idea of civilization from the start instills fear in younger tribe members, kills Piggy, and plans the brutal sacrifice of Ralph. Finally, Jack adapts a ruthless way of leading allowing an obsession with hunting as he segregates his tribe from civilization and leads the hunt for Ralph. The fall

same, Ralph was chief. The reason behind why the kids nominated Ralph chief was because he looked more appealing than jack and he seemed to know what to do. Like for instance, the kids were bewildered when they saw that Ralph had the conch in his hands and that he was not the “man with a trumpet.” Then they realized that Ralph was “the man with the trumpet” and perceived that he would make a fine leader. I say overall: his honesty, his ability to

first thing to gather all the boys on the island, for a meeting. The boys then discussed how things should be done and they elect to vote for a chief. “Him with the shell.” Ralph, the fair haired, good looking boy is voted as chief. But he isn’t voted chief because of his age, leadership skills or any form of democracy. Ralph was voted in as chief because he was the one who blew the conch. The conch that would call the boys to sort out and discuss all the problems that they would have over the months

The purpose of Ralph in the play is one that unintentionally takes the good guy down, he is the betrayal of the story, and he deals with themes of change and guilt. Ralphs key objective in the play is to help but the motivation behind that is to be important that is his main driving force. My rehearsal technique of getting into character was

causes conflict within the group. Golding uses the conflict to help me understand the individuals in the text. This gave me a greater insight and understanding of their characters.   The first time Golding illustrates the conflict between Jack and Ralph, is in chapter one when they experience their encounter. Through this, it helped me to establish the obvious difference in opinion and leadership. The first major conflict I identified was when it came to electing a chief. “I ought to be chief.” Jack

inhabitants are young boys, all under the age of 12. One child, Ralph, takes the position of the leader to gain control over the savage and lost youths, only to be betrayed, which leads to some troubling conflicts. Ralph’s actions and responses show that there is always a bit of savagery with civilization in humans. Ralph uses a conch shell, which symbolizes authority, to establish order. As though he is the head of an assembly, Ralph gives everybody a turn to speak as though

lord of the flies? "Shut up," said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. "Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things." ... Good morning Mrs Downes and class, every civilisation needs a leader or a chief without one, it would deteriorate into utter chaos. William Golding shows early on that a natural born leader is amongst the mix of boys on the island whether he leads the boys to their rescue or demise only his actions and decisions will tell. Ralph is responsible for the island’s decline