Lord of the Flies Roger Character Study

Roger is one of the antagonists in the novel, Lord of the Flies, and the decisions that he makes have major impact on the unfolding of the story. He is introduced as a slightly built boy who is shy, closemouthed and keeps to himself. Rather than let Jack automatically become the leader, Roger suggests that they have a vote. This demonstrates how at the start he was a civilized person who knew what was square-toed and just to do, rather than simply allowing the loudest voice to get their way. Roger is shown to be a bully as he constantly picks on the littluns by destroying their horse sensecastles, throwing sand in their eyes and throwing rocks at them.By Rogers own nature he really wanted to hit the boys with the stones but was held affirm by guilds conditioning of his behavior and as a result befuddled every time. In the hunt his true sadistic nature is promote evidenced by his excessive personnel towards the pig. This all demonstrates that he had do a conscious decision to follow Jack rather than Ralph as this allowed him to foster his dark intentions even though he knew that this was morally wrong. He chose to be involved in the frenzy that lead to the brutal strike of Simon and afterwards showed no remorse for his actions.Therefore civilization was being outback(a) as an inhibiting factor and Roger became increasingly much primitive and savage in his behaviour. When Roger hears of Jacks intentions to beat Wilfred he hurries back to the tribe so that he can torture him himself, showing the further lost of any control society once had on him. When he was looking protrude at Piggy from his vantage point at Castle Rock, his save thoughts about Piggy were that he was a bag of fat, bring out Rogerss now clearly evident accomplish lack of empathy for others.By this stage Roger is well and truly a savage with no more restraints of civilization and because of this he gave into his sadistic urges and pushed the boulder off the cliff, cleanup Piggy. In dealing with newly captive Sam and Eric, Roger asserts authority through violence and forces them to join the tribe and tell him of Ralphs whereabouts, expressing his disregard for conventional authority. The close day Roger sets out with Jack on the hunt for Ralph with the intention of killing him and impaling him so that he can offer him to the Beast.At this point Roger exemplifies the complete division of the boys behaviour from a civilized Christian background to a Pagan tribe. However he is stopped utterly in his tracks when the maritime officer appears and he is dragged back to reality. In a flash the green goddess of a representative of civilisation from a screaming savage and has brought back all the memories of humanity. Rogerss decisions reflect how his character gradually disintegrated under the breakdown of order. To me Roger is a despicable and reprehensible character who illustrates the worst aspects of humanity.