The novel’s protagonist, the twelve-year-old English boy who is elected leader of the group of boys marooned on the island.Ralph represents human beings’ civilizing instinct, as opposed to the savage instinct that Jack embodies.
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Who is Jack?
Jack becomes the leader of the hunters but longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel as the novel progresses. Jack, adept at manipulating the other boys, represents the instinct of savagery within human beings.
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Who is Piggy?
Ralph’s “lieutenant.” A whiny, intellectual boy, Piggy’s inventiveness frequently leads to innovation, such as the makeshift sundial that the boys use to tell time. Piggy represents the scientific, rational side of civilization.
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Who is Simon?
Simon is the only character whose sense of morality does not seem to have been imposed by society. Simon represents a kind of natural goodness.Simon, in some ways the only naturally “good” character on the island, behaves kindly toward the others.
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Who is Roger?
Jack’s “lieutenant.” A sadistic, cruel older boy who brutalizes the littluns and eventually murders Piggy by rolling a boulder onto him.
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Who are Sam'n'Eric?
A pair of twins closely allied with Ralph. Sam and Eric are always together, and the other boys often treat them as a single entity, calling them “Samneric. They fall victim to Jack’s manipulation and coercion
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What is the Lord of The Flies?
The name given to the sow’s head that Jack’s gang impales on a stake and erects in the forest as an offering to the “beast.” The Lord of the Flies comes to symbolize the primordial instincts of power and cruelty that take control of Jack’s tribe.
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Who are the Littluns?
The younger boys of the stranded group. They are the ones who first point out the Beast and also represent the followers of society. They're often neglected by the older boys, but Simon looks after them.
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Who's the Beast?
A corpse of a dead pilot that crashed on the island that the boys mistake for the beast, or as Piggy suggested it is the fear within all the boys which effectively takes away their morality.
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Who is Jack?
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Jack becomes the leader of the hunters but longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel as the novel progresses. Jack, adept at manipulating the other boys, represents the instinct of savagery within human beings.
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