How Does Jack Change In Lord Of The Flies

In the middle of Lord of the Flies, Jack’s savage-like/instinctual behavior is another example of how he is a dynamic character. Jack is savage-like because, at first, Jack thinks everything is fun, but soon realizes it is not fun anymore and wants to leave the island. Jack’s main goal throughout most of the novel is to kill a pig. Jack is put in charge of maintaining the signal fire. After a while, Jack becomes distracted and goes off hunting where he forgets about the signal fire and lets it go out. Soon after, Ralph sees the fire has gone out and is very angry with Jack because there was a ship that passed them that could have rescued them if there was a fire. Also, after Jack forms his tribe, they also need to build a fire, so they steal wood from Ralph’s fire. The second time Jack goes hunting, he kills a sow, which is a female pig. Next, Jack and his tribe cook the pig and hang the pigs head on a stick for the beast. The pig’s head on a stick is a symbol of evil among the boys. This is how Jack’s savage-like/instinctual behavior shows he is a dynamic character in the beginning of the novel.

Jack is a independent person. Jack is a protagonist character. He is this type of character because he is a hero. He wants to go seek his fortune. He has a lot farm animals that wants to go with him to seek his fortune.

 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 very first chapter of the book, he starts to make fun of Piggy to make other laugh. He says, “You’re talking too much, shut up, Fatty” (Golding 27). This can be interpreted as him making fun of the flaws of others to cover his own. Jack’s personality remains consistent in the first few chapters. This is because Jack’s physiological needs are satisfied. He feeds on meat and fruit, has sufficient water, a cozy, warm fire, and shelters to keep safe in. However as the Lord of the Flies continues, the reader is able to see Jack’s behavior worsen as his demand for love, belongingness and esteem grow. Jack wants to be interesting enough to attract the attention of others. He desires to establish personal achievement, self-respect, and status, but cannot strive for these elements without receiving respect and affection from others. He hunts because he feels in unison with a group of people, helping him sense feelings of inclusion, respect and appreciation. Jack lies to the boys about the beastie because he wants the boys to trust him and be friends with him. He tries to lure the boys onto his side by saying things like “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—!” (Golding

Horace once said that, “Force without wisdom falls on its own weight.” Jack Merridew is a boy who who becomes stranded on an inhabited island from six to thirteen years old. They are forced to survive in this environment until they are rescued. Jack Merridew, a character in William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, has changed from the beginning of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Jack’s behavior and attitude is immature and extremely cocky, while toward the middle, he becomes more animal-like, and towards the end, he is a savage and acting on impulse and emotions. Jack’s behavior throughout the novel takes a drastic turn, but his behavior, after the plane crash, is significant to the novel.

As William G. Pollard once said, “Change is not always growth, just as movement is not always progress.” This quote refers to change in one’s character. Oxford Dictionary defines change [in character] as “an act or process through which someone becomes different.” There are two types of character changes: positive change and negative change. Negative change in one’s character may lead to wrong actions and thoughts, whereas the positive change in one’s character guides one to the path of truth and success. Jack’s character is also given a change, a negative change, in the story which turns him into an insensible and cruel being. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses various

In the narrative ‘Lord of the flies’, Jack’s transformation from a normal choirboy into a horrendous and violent savage is evident through his change of appearance and his endeavor in hunting helpless pigs. Jack is introduced in the first chapter as a rather naive and egoistic boy, who is considered among the older grouping of the boys, the biguns. In the early stages of the novel, Golding denotes Jack as an eager responder to Ralph’s authority as he agrees with setting rules that govern the boys conduct. This later changes as Jack reveals some of his innate savage instincts through his yearning endeavor to hunt. Within chapter one, Jack goes on an expedition into the forest along with Ralph and Simon where he encounters a live piglet that is tangled by creepers.

Jack Merridew in the book, Lord of the Flies, is the antagonist that experiences the most symbolic change. William Golding starts the story by explaining Jack as an arrogant choirboy leader, who throws a fit when he is not picked for the leadership role of the whole island. Jack is slowly transformed throughout the story into a murderer who doesn’t think twice of taking a human’s life. Through a series of events Jack changes from a normal boy into a savage being, such as leading the hunting tribe, wearing paint on his face, killing Simon, disparting from the group and then purposefully killing Piggy.

In the novel, the boys always fought, argued, and disobeyed one another. They had difficulty deciding on a leader because more than one person had a strong leadership personality; however, Jack’s aggressive attitude eventually wins out over Ralph’s diplomatic desire to see everyone work together and get along.

Have you ever thought of what could happen to a human when he/she survives on a deserted island? Jack has changed character over the course of the novel. Emotionally, physically, and psychologically due to the conflicts throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies. Jack has changed from being innocent to a savage through his needs for survival.

Lord of the Flies CA on Jack “Lord of the Flies” written by: William Golding When most people think of being stranded on an island everybody can get along nicely and work together while the oldest is the person is in charge and nobody goes against it. Well, for the most part that is how this story goes for all of the characters except one. But there is one selfish child who takes things a different way by dictating others as if the who situation were a game.

Perhaps the most horrifying aspect of William Golding's Lord of the Flies is the striking resemblance to our own characteristics. For this reason, Golding decides to include Jack as the personification of the power hungry, arrogant side that we all share. Though a leader of an angelic choir at the beginning of the book, Jack quickly casts society to the side, leaving a very savage—yet effective—leader. Throughout the book, Jack's physical traits, actions, and motivation clearly outline the change in personality that Jack—and by extension, humankind—experiences as he is given more power and responsibility than he is morally ready for.

The first time he spots a pig on the island he is hesitant to kill it because he still is in a “civilized” mindset. Eventually he builds up the courage to kill a pig. After living on the island for sometime and killing multiple pigs, hunting becomes a form of entertainment for Jack, “The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her […]

In the book Lord of the Flies Golding suggest that humans are naturally savage; without the structure of society, human turn into their savage primitive form. In his novel, The Lord of the Flies, Golding uses mental transformation, physical transformation, and death to illustrate his character his characters´ reversion to savagery, which suggests that Golding believes that human naturally revert to savages without civilization. Golding used Jack’s transformation to show that human naturally reverts to savages without civilization.

The attitude that can not be changed, and selfishness of Jack in this novel is the primary group of the instinct of savagery, violence, the desire for power of the boys, and that he is totally opposite of Ralph. From the start of this novel, Jack wants power on everything that is in the island. He got really mad when he lost the election (to be leader) to Ralph and he keeps on pushing the limit of his lower power in the group. Early on, Jack keeps the sense of good manners and behavior that was introduced in him, plus, before they got stuck in the island Jack was the leader of the choirboys. When Jack goes to his shelter he made he sees the pig. The first time he saw the pig, he is not able to kill it. So Jack soon starts to like hunting things and commits himself on hunting, and he paints his face like a barbarian and he has the desire to kill and hurt others. The more