Lord of the Flies Character Monolgues Essay

doodly-squats monologueOh god, what have I d 1? Simon, Piggy, its entirely my fault. I cant express what I feel, the pain, its overmastering and mind numbing. Ralph if only you could understand the grief that I am going through, in-fact maybe you do? Maybe youre hurting far more than me. Their deaths will get engraved in my conscience until the day I die. I would do anything Ralph, anything to get your forgiveness. At the moment I mountt think you can bare to suppose at me, I can barely look at myself. I mean how can I? Im a murderer. Only if I had the courage to say all this to you, I last the old me would have. No-one will understand the desire and hunger I felt hunt, it was pure exhilaration. I guess that is when things began to get out of raft.My mind became warped by the desire to kill, spill blood and maim. It was over-powering I tried to control it still the day Simon died I let out all my rage. It felt unsloped. Jealousy contend its part as well jealousy of you being leader and you liking Piggy more than me. Piggy was the easiest person to bully he was so unprotected yet you Ralph kept sticking up for him. This made me even angrier towards him. I will pay for my sins by going to jail when I return to England but the pain in my head is nonhing compared to jail. What more can I say? Only that Im sorryRalphs monologueI cant even begin the express the feeling of loss I have for both Simon and Piggy. They were my friends and they lost their lives trying to keep order. I despise Jack and I wish every day that it was he who had perished on the island and non Piggy or Simon. I suppose that I am to belt as well. Only if I had stopped Jack earlier none of this would have happened. The mere fact that I was once friends with Jack makes me sick. The flashbacks of that awful spring and Piggy tumbling off that cliff regularly haunt me. I cant get them out of my head, maybe thats a good thing beca physical exertion it means I will never forget their deat hs or who ca use upd them.The thought of Jack disgusts me, I cannot lay eyes on him for he is a murderer, a murderer who ruthlessly used his power to kill my friends. Eternity in jail is not enough for Jack, how can it be? Someone who has taken the life of another person unlawfully does not deserve the right to live. I shall write a book about my experience so that no one else has any indecisiveness about what to do in that situation. Thank God that most of the littluns are safe, I suppose they werent a immense enough trophy for Jack to conquer. Roger has to pay as well, although Jack controlled the actions of his tribe I was always uneasy with Roger because I felt that if Jack was not there, Roger would be the one to lead their tribe.Now I accept that Piggy and Simon are living happily in heaven and when Jack dies, there is only one place he should goRogers monologueI shall blame Jack for killing Simon and Piggy. In court I will say that he hale me to dislodge the boulder and k ill Piggy. Hahaha no one will know that it was my full intention to kill. I will play for the sympathy balloting in court and put on my best act so that it is Jack who gets sent down, not me. I feel like I baffled out, I couldve badgeringd so many more people during my stay on the island. Oh well now its back to civilisation and rules and laws. How boring I gigantic for a chance to do everything again but this snip I would make myself chief. I wonder what has happened to the beast. Maybe it will haunt that island forever. Now I am free because there isnt any beastie where I live, hehe. I can do what I like.Ralph seemed a good leader at setoff but he was too preoccupied with the fire and rescue. Jack was a better leader but he never fully got to that stage of real wanting to cause pain to theto the other children on the island. Instead it was always track down with him. He wasnt able to see that I was bored hunting pigs. I wanted to hunt littluns.Samnerics monologueWe were sca red of Jack, really really scared. We hope that Ralph doesnt think that we betrayed him. We couldnt help it Jack forced us to join him, he said that if we didnt he would torture us. Roger also kept making threats to us and answerually it slipped out that you were hiding nearby. Our time in Jacks tribe was really quite boring and scary. At all times we were frightened that if we did anything wrong, Jack or Roger would hurt us. about all of the boys felt that way, we only did what Jack told us to do because we were scared of him, there wasnt any other reason.Poor Piggy, he was really just to us and we miss him loads. We shouldve pushed Roger of from the cliff in retaliation but we were too stunned at the time. The shameful nature of our actions when were with Jack cannot be excused, especially the dark Simon died. We didnt leave early that night like we had told Ralph and Piggy but we saw and took part in the dance albeit on the outside. That island made fools out of us, we hope t o never return their again. Looking back it is hard to see how things turned out so bad. Probably the main reason things got out of hand was Jacks need for leadership. Many a time we saw that Jack hated following the orders of someone else.We will try to forget this solemn event in our livesEvidence for the religious perspectiveEvil within man , island= eden, forget previous life, lack of moral/spiritual guidance caused sin+ destruction, created a primitive tribe religion, only god can save1) evil with man golding believes this otherwise why make the character of Simon?(he is the one who says the beast is themselves)2) eden, hmm not always, described as scar, other island has jagged rocks etc, but simons hideaway eden like, fruit is mentioned a LOT.3) god does not save, simon fails, message that Golding is saying we cannot use God as an excuse for this, we must change this ourselves4) more than evidence for lack of moral guidance, no parent to give this, children think it is ok to torture each other + all the other horrible acts committed on the island5) jack creates a rival religion to Ralphs one, boys like jacks more due to the ancestral desire for meat, hunting. Ironically, there is a sort of order in Jacks religion because every1 is so scared of doing anything wrong, they dont do anything. This works against them when they are ordered to kill, etcThe legal angle,Cannot be held wholly responsible due to age, did they understand right from wrong?, premeditated?1) well, ofc they cannot be held wholly responsible, they were only 12 years old2) they could be because certainly Roger knew right from wrong, yet still he chose wrong, jack on the other hand was blinded by his passion for hunting3) some actions were premeditated, the trap thought of by Jack at their new hideout4) he sed that they cud use it to kill any1 who comes5) simons death was not really premeditated, the boys got swept up in a mad deep passion which caused them to kill him6) Roger+Jack beside s can be convicted of Piggys death, not of simons if some1 sed that they shud be convicted of simons death then all of the boys including Ralph+Piggy wud be convicted because of the first death caused by the huge fire, hmm maybe Piggy exempt+ littluns, rest convictedThe moral viewsimilar to psychiatrists view and parts of religious view.The other children slowly absorb Jacks views because he is the head of that particular family, jack however turned nasty due to a return to primeval instincts.Cruelty flourishes in conditions where there is much fear, lack of parental guidance, feeling of nothing to lose , despairHard to see if Jack felt despair, but certainly Ralph and Piggy do, instead they do not give up hope golding says capacity for selflessness and make out this is shown by Piggy (towards littluns + Ralph (when he helps the crying one talk bout beastie))Simon shows love towards all of nature, but he is not understood by others and is called batty.Again lack of parental guidanc e to tell them right from wrong+ children not on island are going wrong so imagine the difficulty for children on an islandHumanist viewFear- no one escapes fear, shown by the beast not including simon (he is afraid of speaking out)Tyranny,- Jack becomes a servant of his own thirst for blood,he does not rule himself, the hunger does, gets power and the situation becomes worse, breaks away from Ralph