Analysis of Lord of the Flies-Main Characters

Lord of the Flies #1

Jack
Jack is the powerful creeping darkness in the way that he starts out as the leader of the choirboys in chapter one and by the last chapter is the leader of the savage youth group. Jack Merridew is a very arrogant character that assumes leadership of the tribe through instigation and turning the older kids against Ralph and manipulating the littluns. The only apparent reason that he is turning everyone against Ralph to take control of the tribe is the fact that he can’t stand not being the most powerful.

Ralph
Ralph is one of the elder boys that is the mainly the leader of the society of kids throughout the story. Throughout the story Ralph is proving his honorable attentions of keeping the order in the island and be the arbiter of the island, while maintaining the majority of the children in favor of his ruling. He is a soldier; he struggles throughout the story to establish a true democratic order. He wants all ...