Ralph In Lord Of The Flies

In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, he shows symbolism within the objects and characters in the story. Each of the characters’ actions resemble how people in society would react to life changes and ruling ways. Golding understood how a society works in order to stick together or break into complete savagery. One of the main characters, Ralph, is the one of oldest and became the leader of all the boys when they are stuck on the island. He will now have to find a way to form a social order for the boys and keep them all together. Ralph shows many characteristics of good leadership, commitment, and easily being distracted into savagery or violence. Ralph showed great leading skill and tries to helps the boys stay together during …show more content…
Ralph says in the beginning of the story after the boys voted, “‘Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s hand was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I’m chief then’” (Golding 23). Ralph is committed to being chief and stays that way. There are some situations that happen that make him think of resigning but he never does because he believes he is the best leader for the other boys. Ralph yelling at Jack after forgetting about the fire, “‘There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!’ He took a step toward Jack, who turned and faced him. ‘They might have seen us. We might have gone home---’” (Golding 70). Ralph is very committed to getting rescued and won’t care about any worthless activities Jack does on the island. He is also really committed to the being friends with Piggy and Simon and the littluns so he does not switch sides with Jack. Piggy says to Ralph later in the story, “‘I expect they’ve gone. I expect they won’t play either… They always been making trouble, haven’t they?… We can do without ’em. We’ll be happier now, won’t we?’” (Golding 131). Piggy tells Ralph that they don’t need Jack and his tribe; Ralph sticks with Piggy because he believes that is the right thing to do. He is loyal friend to Piggy since he is always getting …show more content…
He is a big part in the story from those characteristics and how a leader reacts to a person trying to take control using savagery like Jack. A society needs to be lead by a loyal, trustworthy, and smart leader which they boys though Ralph was more than Jack. Ralph’s main mission was to get rescued which did happen, but it costed him his good friends Piggy and Simon. Society has a balance between good and evil or order and savagery, but when one overlaps the other it can cause happiness or complete