Lord of the flies character description of ralph
Lord of the Flies - A character study of RalphThis essay is a character study of Ralph, who is one of the main characters in William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies'. I have chosen to analyse Ralph's character, as it is the character with which I feel that I can relate most closely. Ralph is probably the novel's main character. This essay will include my identification of the major aspects of Ralph's character and how he symbolises different themes, which are portrayed in the novel. I will cover in this what Ralph contributes to the plot of the novel, a description of Ralph's appearance, his dreams, his attitude to being stranded on the island, how he relates to the other boys and how he organises the boys into becoming a self-dependent society. Ralph's character plays a major part in the plot of 'Lord of the Flies'. Ralph is the first character we meet in the novel and at first he seems to be very relaxed about the situation of being in unknown territory. The plot begins opens when Ralph and another boy, Piggy, discover each other and eventually decide through Piggy's constant persistence to blow through a conch shell to see if there are any other people around. It turns out that there are many
Although he has all of these good qualities, he needs Piggy who is in fact more intelligent than him and comes up with all the good ideas. Throughout the story Ralph shows courage and struggles to continue to believe that people are fundamentally good. Ralph is an attractive, fair-haired and athletic young boy, in contrast to Piggy who is short and fat, wears glasses and has asthma. "Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain. Although rescued, Ralph weeps at the end because of his realisation of evil in themselves. 24) Throughout the story we see the events through Ralph's eyes and realise at the end how they children have lost their innocence and see 'the darkness of man's heart'. In the end Ralph is a very ordinary boy who has almost been crushed by the opposition but despite recognising obvious weaknesses in himself, he always tries to understand what is going on around him and to understand himself and thus shows indubitable heroism. Ralph on the other hand spends time trying to persuade the boys with common sense and does not realise that they can be persuaded more easily with bribes and the temptation of fun. There is even evil in Ralph himself, when he reveals Piggy's nickname just to raise a laugh amongst the others and so he shows that he too wants to be one of the group. Another major character, Simon, is a deeply good individual, who performs many acts of thoughtfulness and kindness. Jack's tribe begin to intimidate Piggy and he too eventually dies as the result of an accident. The society now becomes split into two gangs, Jack's tribe and Ralph's now much smaller group. Simon becomes the first victim of what the boys of as the beast, 'the Lord of the Flies' or 'Beelzebub', when he goes to his sanctuary and finds there a pig's head on a stick, with which he starts to have an imaginary conversation.
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