Builders and Destroyers
... fire was the ultimate priority. He helped remind Ralph throughout the novel that “the smoke’s a signal and [they] can’t be rescued if [they] don’t have smoke” (Golding 173). Simon was also a builder, trying to put down the theory of a beast in the forest and bring out that the true beast was within themselves. “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness” which later lead to his death (Golding 89). Finally, Jack was a destroyer. He started off with believing they’ve “got to have rules and obey them [because] after all [they] were not savages”, but later changed his aspect on the situation and decided that hunting and savagery was more appealing then law and order and tried to pull down the society (Golding 42). I think it would have been possible for them to co-exist if more people were not as afraid to stick up for what they believed in like Piggy and Ralph instead of following the majority of the...