Yet these children are expected to look after one another in the forest, in the obscure. This forlorn place is strange and new to them all but they all take up a certain role to play, that contributes to the death of their very own friends. .
The universal truth that W. Golding has attempted to communicate to us is that be it children, be it teenagers, or adults, we all have a darker, uncouth side to us all. If we are in a space where there are no rules, where there is no surveillance, there is only us, then all civility disappears, all morality, all inner instinct of kindness and respect slips away. Your true, real self is exposed under those circumstances. In simple words, we are all savages at heart, and if we get the chance to do something wrong knowing that no one is looking our way; we will not refrain from it, our true nature, our subconscious will take over and we will do the bad that we either suppressed, or we didn't know we were capable of, or moreover something bad that we would actually enjoy. It portrays how easily we can return to our primitive form, and what we humans can do to one another, to one of our own. .
Piggy, Ralph, Jack, Roger, Simon, Bill, Robert and Maurice are the older ones. They have formed a group of themselves, naturally fallen in together. Ralph is the chosen leader, the one who feels the urge to return to civilization the most. He is the one who continuously fights for the fire to be kept going until the very end, in hope of rescue. Piggy is somewhat the person who aids him in being the leader, he is the one with the "brains", he is the one who can think quickly, and come up with ideas that others can't. Ralph knows he cannot think like Piggy, he cannot make decisions, he doesn't know how to handle this position he is in. Yet the trouble is that Piggy isn't well accepted among the others especially by Jack. Jack is the rival of Ralph, Jack and Ralph struggle through to the end to see who is fit to actually lead them all.