good vs evil

Ralph is presented as a righteous leader

a golden light danced and shattered just over his face

Jack is presented as a sub 5 leader

crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness

Killing animals initially seems unimaginable

because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh

The urge to commit evil starts to build up in Jack

the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.

Simon is presented as moral and compassionate

Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach

Roger's evil urges are held back by civilisation

Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

Jack's mask let him commit evil deeds without shame

Liberated from shame and self-consciousness

Simon is compassionate towards mistreated characters

shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy

Simon understands that humans have a fundamental urge for evil

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.

Simon understands that humans have a fundamental urge for evil (2)

there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

Simon prophecises hope

"You'll get back to where you came from."

Even moral characters feel the urge to be evil

The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.

The choir has abandoned their neat and courteous ways

ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.

The hunters now give in to evil

the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust

Roger is able to let loose his evil urges through hunting

Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear

Evil and savagery is let out once within a crowd

the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.

Simon's virtue is emphasised in his death

The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.

Piggy understands the importance of morality

"I don't ask for my glasses back, not as a favour...but because what's right's right"

Roger joyously lets out his evil by killing someone

Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.

Roger's evil gives him authority

Roger advanced upon them as one wielding a nameless authority

Jack fully gives in to evil at the end of the book

Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph.

The boys' loss of identity and descent into savagery has turned them evil

the anonymous devils' faces swarmed across the neck.

Ralph was left as the last remaining moral character

Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desperation.

Evil destroyed the island

the whole island was shuddering with flame.