Duality In Lord Of The Flies

Jack uses the beast to gain power and promises of protection for the boys; from the beast. Jack uses the boys’ fear of the beast to manipulate them to his own advantage. He knows it doesn’t exist; however he uses its hypothetical existence to ensure the compliance of the other boys and follow his commands. Fear is the source of Jack’s power. The other boys don’t flock to Jack for his personality or leadership; instead, they gather around him for the solace he promised them.

            Jack's next step into savagery is when they are all dancing around the fire in celebration. Simon is coming to tell the boys about his vision of the beast, when Jack and his tribe mistake Simon for the beast and attack and kill him. He has now killed his first human being - although it seemed not to be completely intentional. Jack

If you had been alone in the jungle, with the thought that something might be out there to get you, the sound of shelter, protection and food sounds very appealing. Which is a strategy jack uses in order to gain more followers in his group. These are adult promises which appeal to the children. They are afraid that if they do not join his group, they will suffer. But before he gets to making his own group, he weakens Ralph’s ability to create a sense a security by saying,”’He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t perfect, and we don’t know anything about him’” (83) Jack says this to make a point that Ralph isn’t fit to lead the group, he is creating fear in the children's minds that they won't be safe under Ralph’s watch. Once Jack has the attention of some of the children and gained their loyalty he sets rules in place. “‘We’ll hunt. I’m going to be chief. [...] And about the beast. [...] Forget the beast. And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here.’” (133) At that point it seems as if jack is trying to eliminate some of that fear from the kids to build strong hunters on his side. The children are afraid. Once jack degrades Ralph in front of them, they are afraid of inadequate safety, which they now feel that jack can provide. Fear is evident in the children at this point in the

The boys are forced to blindly trust Jack. It is in human nature to either lead or to follow and Jack refuses to do the latter. Although the boys follow Jack throughout

In our society we have our system for power set up making the understanding of who is in charge easy; However, when the boys are stranded on an island they are forced to come up with their own system, causing rivalries and corrupting rights and values. Before being stranded on an island Jack was an innocent, well-behaved child, however, when thrown into a foreign place with no society and no system of power it is very easy to destroy all of your innocence when obtaining most power. Jack was a hunter and was in charge of all the hunter, he eventually made his own tribe and almost everyone followed him, giving him a mass amount of control. Golding shows that Jack uses his power in ways only beneficial to him, easily seen when the remainder of Ralphs tribe approach Jacks and see him, “ painted up and wearing garland around his neck” (54). Jack uses his power to idolize himself and make the other

There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”(CHECK PG.) Jack leaded this group to do this act as before Simon came dredging out of the woods they chanted ““Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”(CHECK PG.) These quotes show the readers the darkness that Jack released and used to control his followers.

Simon is the first to realize that the beast is “only us” and tries to give voice to “mankind’s essential illness” (Doc F). Later, when Simon finds the dead parachutist, he attempts to tell the others the “Beast is only human.” (Doc E). Rather than listening to his words, Simon is brutally attacked and killed by them: “There were no words and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Doc F). Ironically, Simon, the sensitive boy with the goal to tell of man's violent nature, is instead mistaken for the beast. Therefore he is murdered by the true, human beast: the boys with “teeth and claws.”

Jack was encouraging to danced and chant. Jack not being under Ralph and anyone’s control, allows him to freely do what he wants. And because he has killed the pig and now he want the boys to kill the beast. They only cared about the paranoid. Humans have an innate evil within them and that evil comes out when there is a lack of civilization as seen in Simon’s

After Jack started his own tribe, he became the leader and had power over a lot of boys. He becomes a savage by killing a pig with his bare hands and giving it to “the Beast” as a sacrifice, hurting little boys, and playing a savage “game” that ends up with the boys murdering Simon. The behaviours of the other boys also change throughout the story. They go from respecting Ralph and the conch to attempting to murder Ralph and destroying the shell. Kids were proper English boys until they adapted to the situation, took things way too seriously, and became

The boys are dancing around the fire, reenacting the pig hunt; it’s all very fast paced, very full of emotion, and just a generally intense event. Mob mentality had already taken over at this point, the boys were acting as one, not really aware of who they were or what they were doing. Then Simon crawls out of the bushes, limping, bloody, and trying to talk. At first, in their excitement-blurred state, the boys mistake him for the beast and attack. Most of the boys quickly realize it wasn’t the beast. But that didn’t stop them. Mob mentality had taken over the boys, and mob mentality had taken another

In the novel Lord of the Flies the author, William Golding, uses Jack’s desire for power and Roger’s inability to follow society’s rules to outline that man’s essential state of nature is a result of a hostile environment. Jack is relentless when trying to receive the label of chief, and he uses the fear factor routinely when he mentions the beast and the importance of having hunters to make all of the boys feel as though they need him for survival. Roger constantly goes againsts Ralph’s rules and the power of the conch which strips away all of the remaining civilization. As Jack and Roger begin to band together, their wrong doings not only take a toll on them as humans, but on the good of the island and all of the boys. If one is surrounded by the influence of evil with no restriction, the dark will take over in place of the good rather briskly.

Simon's trip down the mountain is his last because the group of boys act on instinct and brutally murder him. They “lept on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore” (page 153). This shows that instead of using their brains they are acting as untamed animals. The tribe demonstrates a wicked behavior in an unstable state of mind. Before Simon dies, he meets the lord of the flies and comes to a revelation. The lord says, “I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?” (page 143) which is very symbolic. The beast is not an animate object that one can kill and hunt but is a symbol of wickedness that exists in everyone of them. Jack’s tribe is too caught up in the situation that they release the inner beast in themselves

“A circling movement developed and a chant”(pg. 212) The boys on the outside of the circle beat Simon to death. This is an example of Jack influencing the boys because he scared them into thinking it was the beast. He also influenced the to kill Piggy with a big boulder after he kindly asked for his glasses back. “Piggy was everywhere, was on this neck, was become terrible in the darkness and

Jack and the boys are in a primal state of rage, where their rage gets directed at their surroundings. Driven by rage, the boys attack the ‘beast’, but blinded by their immense anger they are unable to realize that the beast is Simon. Controlled by the flight or fight response created by their rage, the boys are not able to critically think about what they are doing and the consequences of their actions. The beast is a symbol of how rage is inherent in human nature because it is fictional and the boys were never taught the primal emotions that they were experiencing on the island. Through the process of chanting and performing rituals for the beast, such as placing a pig head on a stake and announcing, “This head is for the beast.

No matter how much the mind and soul wish for the world to be nothing but good and pure, it is not anywhere near possible. Good will never be able to escape from the corruption that evil brings. How can one completely destroy something when in reality it is apart of yourself? The good aspects of life cannot be fully comprehended unless evil is personally experienced. Neither one would exist without the other. Human nature is a fragile concept that must contain both of the extremes in order to exist in true content. As strange as it may seem, the use of duality is structurally necessary for society. Religion plays an essential part in the balance. In Lord of the Flies, Golding uses a religious allegory to convey the theme of good vs. evil to