A comparison of the ways in which Golding presented Ralph Jack in the Lord of the Flies and Stevenson's presentation of Jekyll and Hyde in the novel Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
'Lord of the flies' and 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' both deal with the good and evil sides of man, even though Golding and Stevenson wrote their books in different historical periods. The novels are both dealing in the same theme. The authors use their characters to represent the struggle between good and evil. Golding uses a group of boys to show the divide of good and evil, while Stevenson used the good and evil within one person.
As these authors use their characters to represent this struggle. It is important to see how they develop through the novel.
Ralph in 'Lord of the Flies' is presented as a middle class boy at the beginning of the novel. Golding describes him as 'the boy with the fair hair', which is a symbol of a good person. The author describes how Ralph climbs easily through the undergrowth, which is contrasted with the way in which Piggy 'clambers' through it. The author has put Ralph and Piggy together because they are different in both mind and body. Together they will both make a whole good person. Ralph is tall, fit, good-looking and fair-haired. Ralph has a good background with his father being in the navy. This suggests that Ralph was brought up in a good way, so he should know the difference between right and wrong. This is a stereotypical good person, but Ralph is not a thinker. Ralph does do some bad things. He betrays Piggys name by telling all the other children what Piggys name was, when Piggy told him not to. Piggy is a short, plump; he wears glasses and is an orphan.
'Lord of the flies' and 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' both deal with the good and evil sides of man, even though Golding and Stevenson wrote their books in different historical periods. The novels are both dealing in the same theme. The authors use their characters to represent the struggle between good and evil. Golding uses a group of boys to show the divide of good and evil, while Stevenson used the good and evil within one person.
As these authors use their characters to represent this struggle. It is important to see how they develop through the novel.
Ralph in 'Lord of the Flies' is presented as a middle class boy at the beginning of the novel. Golding describes him as 'the boy with the fair hair', which is a symbol of a good person. The author describes how Ralph climbs easily through the undergrowth, which is contrasted with the way in which Piggy 'clambers' through it. The author has put Ralph and Piggy together because they are different in both mind and body. Together they will both make a whole good person. Ralph is tall, fit, good-looking and fair-haired. Ralph has a good background with his father being in the navy. This suggests that Ralph was brought up in a good way, so he should know the difference between right and wrong. This is a stereotypical good person, but Ralph is not a thinker. Ralph does do some bad things. He betrays Piggys name by telling all the other children what Piggys name was, when Piggy told him not to. Piggy is a short, plump; he wears glasses and is an orphan.
