Dominique Tappy 6F - 9th April 2000 Trace the development of the deterioration of the relationship between Ralph and Jack Both characters whom I will be focusing on and contrasting in this essay come from the same book; it is the William Golding's Lord of the Flies. The book was the first work of fiction of Golding's, written in 1954. It is an unusually and carefully constructed fable that was, in Golding's words, ‘an attempt to trace …showed first 75 words of 1822 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1822 total…Golding's thesis comes not from the imaginary events on the island but from the reality of the reader's response to them. Our minds turn to the outrages of our century - the slaughter of the first war, the concentration camps and atom-bombs of the second - and we realise that Golding has compelled us to acknowledge that there is in each of us a hidden recess which horrifyingly declares our complicity in torture and murder...