Lord of the Flies Key Characters

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Piggy
Unattractive, lower social class, adult mature voice in novel, recognises importance of the conch, intelligence, Piggy's glasses
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Piggy Quotes
"Piggy was an outsider" "Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains" "there isn't no fear" "I thought they wanted the conch" "Ralph - remember what we came for"
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Sam n Eric
No one can tell them apart, they become a single unit, find the parachutist and tell the others it was the beast, stay loyal to Ralph and warn him that he will be hunted and killed
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Sam n Eric Quotes
"They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital" "one conch did for both twins" "There were eyes - Teeth - Claws" "They're going to hunt you tomorrow"
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Simon
The only one without any evil, represents Jesus, nature responds to him in a way that's beautiful, finds out the truth about the beast, killed by the others
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Simon Quotes
"Like candles, candle bushes. Candle buds" "Simon found for them the fruit the could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage" "Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill"
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Ralph
Represents democracy and diplomacy, sees importance of the fire and rescue, natural leader, kind and fair but even Ralph gets pulled into the killing of Simon, the only one who takes responsibility for his evil.
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Ralph Quotes
"There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil" "You voted me for chief. Now you do what I say" "Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh" "Don't you understand, Piggy?"
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Jack
Power hungry, represents Hitler and dictatorship, descends into savagery quickly, rules by fear of the beast
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Jack Quotes
"Jack tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill" "furtive thing, ape-like" "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you" "the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"
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Roger
Very sadistic and represents an extreme form of man's inner evil, at first social conditioned, administers torture, kills Piggy and shows no remorse, wants to kill Ralph
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Roger Quotes
"Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins" "Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever" "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"
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Piggy Quotes

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"Piggy was an outsider" "Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains" "there isn't no fear" "I thought they wanted the conch" "Ralph - remember what we came for"

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Sam n Eric

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Sam n Eric Quotes

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Simon

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