Both boys have been given two very different personalities. Ralph is the personality that represents civilized behavior, compassion, and concern. He is what is good about humanity. Jack is the opposite. He is the antagonist. Jack, without adult guidance and order, becomes the raw embellishment of savagery. He demonstrates what happens when civilization begins to fall apart.
The author gave us the two characters so that the reader could identify the marked contrast as well as setting the stage for the conflict that will lead to the total breakdown of civilized social behaviors. Like the world that the boy’s have been transported away from in order to escape the fall of civilization, they too have mimicked the behaviors of the fall of a civilization.
Only the fittest survive.
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