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Examine how Golding presents Goody and Roger

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Examine how Golding presents Goody and Roger and the relationship between them. Goody and Roger have a forbidden relationship throughout the novel because both are already in relationships. However, their affair could have been prevented or at least ended by Jocelin by stopping the building of the spire. Jocelin does not choose to do this but sacrifices many of his characters in order to get the spire built. He married Goody to Pangall to satisfy his own feelings and therefore set up Goody to unhappiness and her want for Roger. Therefore it is sin that brought the relationship together which shows the reader that the relationship is not a good one that may end in tragedy. Golding presents this sinful relationship by firstly talking about the individual characters of Goody and Roger; he talks about it as a "major evil" and talks about the pregnancy from the relationship. In chapter one the...

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