Lord of The Flies Essay         In Lord of the Flies, the first character we meet is Ralph. He's the most handsome one there and has the best stature.         "The boy with fair hair... He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far …showed first 75 words of 788 total…

…showed last 75 words of 788 total…apple from the tree of knowledge. When Jack 'hunts' Ralph that symbolizes Evil trying to beat Goodness. And anarchy defeats order, which is Jack defeating Ralph.         According to Golding, government ultimately will always fail because the public usually wants to do what they want to do and not what is morally right because it is in their blood. When left alone in isolation, humans will revert to the savage and barbaric roots of their ancestors.