Character Change In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, has four very important dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a character that develops and grows during the course of the story. Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon are four dynamic characters in Lord of the Flies that adapt to their new lifestyles in different ways. Jack is a very important dynamic character in Lord of the Flies because he goes through the most changes during the novel. While on the island, Jack has many life experiences that change him forever. Jack never thought he would live his life the way he is living his life in the island. Jack’s authoritative figure, savage-like/instinctual behavior, and violence are three qualities that make Jack a dynamic character.

The Lord of the Flies is a story about a group of boys who are stranded on an island. There aren’t any adults with them because the plane they were on had crashed and the pilot died, he had been the only adult with them. That main character Ralph is elected chief of the boys and is supposed to be in charge, but finds it hard to keep control. Ralph believes the most important thing is to keep the fire going, so that if a ship passes by they can get rescued. As the story goes on dissent begins to form among the other boys. The leader of this dissent was Jack. He had wanted to have control from the beginning and was fed up with Ralph’s rules.

In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances. Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self-righteous leader of a choir. The freedom of the island allowed him to further develop the darker side of his personality as the Chief of a savage tribe. Ralph started as a self-assured boy whose confidence in himself came from the acceptance of his peers. He had a fair nature as he was willing to listen to Piggy. He became increasingly

Lord of the Flies has many meanings to it that are represented through the characters and their feelings. When comparing the characters in the Lord of The Flies, you can see the obvious change in most of them from the beginning of the book to the end. The two main characters are Ralph, the protagonist and Jack, the antagonist. Ralph and Jack both have different qualities and beliefs that define each of them completely and at times make them both alike in many ways. They both represent what we are and what they were, Civilized and Savage.

 In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack is the character that experiences the most change. Jack begins the novel as a somewhat arrogant choirboy, who cries when he is not elected leader of the island. Jack is gradually transformed into a vicious killer who has no respect for human life. Through a series of stages, such as leading the choir, leading the hunting tribe, wearing the mask, killing Simon, separating from the group and intentionally killing Piggy, Jack degenerates from a normal, arrogant school boy into a savage beast.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew is seen as a character that wants to be leader and have power over everyone. His presence seems to terrify all the boys on the island, and uses this to his advantage to control the boys and manipulate them. As evil as he already seems, Jack is known to be the character to experience the most change out of anyone involving the change from civilization to savagery. He begins as an arrogant choirboy, who is actually seen cry when Ralph is elected leader of the island instead of him. Jack's original feelings were to keep an organized group on the island, and also mentions that he is not a savage, and that he will always do the right things. When Ralph brings everyone in the group together, Jack says, "I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right

Oftentimes authors will use symbolism through the characters in order to represent a larger encompassing theme. William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies is no exception to this pattern—as various characters in the book have such allegorical meanings. In the case of Jack, he could be said to represent the evilness in humanity, proven by three established concepts in the story: the true nature of his hunting tendencies, the progression of events that happen in his dancing rituals, and his interactions towards other symbolic figures. These three reasons, furthered by evidence shown throughout the novel, fit Jack into a role of symbolic evilness (add something here).

Jack- Jack is kind of an antagonist in the Lord of the Flies. He is a mean and savage boy who only cares for himself and no one else. Jack is the type of person who enjoys rebelling other people for what they think and likes to insult people for who they are. Things tend to get out of hand, ever since Ralph and the boys met Jack. For example, Jack divided the hunters and created his own tribe and becomes enemies with Ralph’s tribe.

he decides whether evil prevails over good or otherwise. In the novel, Lord of the Flies, Golding writes about a group of British military boys who are marooned in a strange island and they decide on how to get rescue. Ralph, one of the main characters in the novel portrays Civilization and race for emancipation, While Jack chooses to continually long for power and immortalises the passion for hunting.

Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the way Jack is described changes. Not only how other characters view him but also the way he is described throughout the book. At his first appearance he is described as tall thin and bony with red hair, that his face is ugly and freckled. His blue eyes looked like they were ready to turn into anger. The other characters progressively start to see him as evil and violent as he craves to become leader over Ralph. His main conflict is believing that he deserves to be in charge and Ralph does not. Killing turns into a nature although he struggled at the beginning. Jack becomes viewed as an animal as he becomes so obsessed with being leader, when he struggles to kill the pig it shows his true humanity.

In Lord of the Flies, Jack represents an oppressive government and savagery. Jacks oppressive-like government is backed by violence and brutality, the characteristics in which Roger demonstrates.

It is no secret that Lord of The Flies by William Golding is a complex book .There are countless areas in the book meant to symbolize human society due in part to Golding’s participation and horrific experiences in World War II .All of the characters from the book undoubtedly depict different aspects of human nature however, this is most evident in the character Jack Merridew . Jack is above all , a bully . He clearly portrays the theme of Power vs Powerlessness , however whether Jack has the power or not depends on which character he is interacting with. For example when Jack interacts with less mighty characters such as SamnEric and Piggy , he uses his intimidation and bully behavior to make them afraid of him.

“I ought to be chief...because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp” (Golding22). The characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding go through changes, especially Jack Merridew. As the story builds up, he exchanged his innocence with the savagery and discipline with the rebellion. Also, he lost his sense of civilization. At the beginning of the novel, Jack wasn’t capable of hunting, instead he was a reasonable leader and law-abiding. However, toward the end, not only did he kill a pig, he was determined to kill the boys. He rebelled through liberating the restrictions- eventually becomes the symbol of evil.

Microcosm is a community, place, or situation regarded as encapsulating in miniature the characteristic qualities or features of something much larger. In other words, it simply means “small world”. The island in which the story, Lord of The Flies, took place is a perfect example of a Microcosm. The Author, William Golding, does a tremendous job of portraying microcosm by making connections through characters and creating a small island that is a mirror image of today’s adult society.

Lord of the Flies is an enthralling novel written by William Golding which incorporates a multitude of subjects, including, but not limited to: fear, conflict, civilization, and savagery. I chose to create a mask which resembles Jack. An alternative idea that I considered was to make one side of the mask a bad character representing the id such as Jack and the other half another character a good character representing the superego like Piggy. I did not choose this idea because I know a lot of other people had this idea or very similar so I just decided to focus on one character. Jack as a character is unique to me compared to other characters because he is the antagonist of the novel. The arrogance he has and the hostility he shows to others