Main characters of Lord of the flies

Major protagonists are Ralph, Simon and Piggy while antagonists are Jack and Roger. Ralph is elected as the leader of the children by popular majority vote. He has leadership, and looks believable, dependable and well-mannered. His leadership comes from instinct and not as much as from his deep insight about human nature, and therefore he was not able to keep the children civilized when the antagonist Jack allures them into instinctive animal pleasure. Simon is good-natured and has insight in the true nature of man, although he is a little younger than the other main characters. His flaw is that he wishes to be alone and does not like to talk in front of others. Piggy is smart and wishes everything in universe to be in good order. However, he is a little lazy and his appearance is not attractive so that others make fun of him. Jack was the leader of the choir before the plane crash, but lost the popular vote against Ralph because he looks ‘ugly without silliness’ and intimidates others. Later he wins against Ralph by providing the children with meat in return for submission to him. He represents the savage nature in man. Roger is quiet and dismal. He appears to be resentful to everyone probably because he has an abused childhood. He is much worse than Jack and represents the evil.

Do I like them? No, because they all have character flaws. They are far from idealized heroes in ‘ordinary’ happy-ending novels. I should however admit from the bottom of my heart that theses characters represent the realistic human natures of you and I.