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Society holds everyone together. Without these conditions, our ideals, values, and the basics of right and wrong are lost. Without society's rigid rules, anarchy and savagery can come to light. Basing on these simple beliefs, William Golding reveals his views of the world and humankind in general and the conflict between humanity's innate barbarism and the civilizing influence of reason through his writings. In the Lord of the Flies, Golding’s perspectives on how political systems cannot govern society effectively without first taking into consideration the defects of human nature are proved through two of his main characters, Ralph and Jack. He designs Ralph as a primary representative of the order of a civilization and Jack as the savagery, anarchy, and the darker side of human nature. While Ralph personifies law, cooperation and democratic choice, it turns out to be Jack's reliance on charisma, brute force and authoritarian rule that wins out on the island at the end. Ralph is the main protagonist of the novel. Elected as the leader of the boys at the beginning of the novel, Ralph already established the belief that “we’ve got to have rules and obey them” because “we are not savages. We’re English, and the En