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Ralph the Guardian Ever read a book and instantly thought of the personality that character was? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Ralph is that character with Guardian of the Myers-Briggs test. Ralph is a guardian because he trusts authority, is focused on tradition, and is a stabilizing leader. Ralph demonstrates that he trusts authority several times throughout the book, a key quality of a Guardian. A big way he trusts authority, despite being the chief of the island, is through trusting authority of his traditions from the world he wishes to get back to. He works to recreate the rules and structure he is used to how ever he can, like through the similar structures he works to build. Ralph also demonstrates trusting authority when going up the mountain to find the beast. He didn’t want to go up the mountain, but when Jack acted as an authoritative figure, he quickly caved, trusting the authority. When Jack leaves the camp he trusts the authority, nature and tradition, to bring Jack back by sunset when he says, “‘He’ll come back. When the sun goes down he’ll come’”(). Ralph trusts authority, especially the authority of his past traditions, showing he is a Guardian. Focusing on tradition, something Ralph often did, is further evidence of him being a Guardian. He shows this through trying to reconstruct home as he believes the similar structures from past tradition are the best way to make things on the island as well. His focus on tradition, on rules, is shown with, “‘The rules!’ shouted Ralph. ‘You’re breaking the rules!’”(91). Ralph shows his Guardian personality through his focus on tradition which he also uses to act as a stabilizing leader. (180) Ralph, if any kind of leader, is a stabilizing leader, a major trait of the Guardian personality. Ralph shows he is a stabilizing leader when, “Ralph pushed between them and got a thump on the chest”(90). Part of effectively stabilizing is knowing what will actual help make a situation more stable, and what will backfire, shown through his response to Piggy about not blowing the conch, “If I blow the conch and they don’t comeback; then we’ve had it”(92). Deciding what personality someone is accurately is much more than just they have x number of traits shared with y personality, but at the sum of the person’s traits to decide what fits them. Ralph is not of the Guardian personality because he has three major traits of a Guardian, but because he is a stabilizing leader who trusts authority and is focused tradition, the foundations of the Guardian personality which create much of the rest of the Guardian personality. It seems ironic that the personality known as the Guardian, making thoughts come of someone protecting another from being forced to conform to another’s ideal is the personality who works toward conformity and blindly listening to what authorities say.