Human Nature In Lord Of The Flies

Killing a pig was way too low for Jack. Jack and his followers killed a pig in need for food. If an adult civilized group was stuck, They would kill the pigs, but not that brutally. The civilization of Jack was gone and they were living like cavemen.

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

Later, Jack and his hunters display another example of human evil with the gruesome slaughtering of a pig. They don’t just stab it to death and get it over with, but carry on deranged acts like taking a stick sharpened at both ends, with one side in the ground and the other for the pig to be impaled on. They take joy in the blood of the pig and show odd sexual hunger when they sodomize the pig with a stick.

It is a very arguable subject on whether or not people are born with good intentions, and therefore taught by others the ‘evil’ side of their personality. Whether it is the absence of ethical conduct in human nature, or just the way one perceives a situation, evil seems to be prominent in our everyday lives. Humans seem to have a moral code that follows them with every decision they make, yet despite the laws of morality and society, people of this world still seem to behave inhumanely because of the act of self-preservation, human interest, and who exactly the authority figure is at the time.

Even though Jack demonstrated his leadership qualities when proposing a rescue plan to the ‘tribe’, and by accepting Ralph’s election to lead the group, something he wanted for himself, he eventually turns into a savage through killing a pig. This incident gives him a sense of power realizing that he can act with impunity without consequences. Wanting to hunt and kill pigs turned into a priority, eliminating the need to be

(Golding 33). Being stranded on the island has majorly changed Jack, he is praised for killing pigs because of it supply of meat. The amount of praise and the feeling of victory after a kill has caused Jack to go mad. The society within the island has corrupted Jack and many of his hunters because they are praised so greatly for killing a pig that they have now adapted this hunting as an evil game, the hunts are no longer for food but instead for self pride, and praise, and power.

While Jack and his hunters started out as just choirboys, they become obsessed with violence and are driven to kill. In the beginning of the book, Jack hesitates and misses his chance to kill a trapped pig. Later on, as Jack and his newly formed tribe hunt in the forest, they discover a sow. Following the desperate chase after

Although, Jack hesitates when killing it, giving the pig time to escape. This fuels Jack’s want to hunt even more, further drowning him in his savage instincts. Rumours start to spread about a “snake thing” that lives on the island. This rises panic throughout the tribe of boys, and makes them want to hunt more than build shelters.

I thought, by myself…I thought I might kill.”. The reader can see from this that Jack’s vocabulary is composed of only monosyllabic words as he is preoccupied only with thoughts of slaughtering. We can also interpret that Jack feels as if he has to kill in order to gain respect for himself. Jack shows this pride when he does eventually kill a pig and he retells the story of the hunt to the rest of the boys. He and some of the boys re-enact the murder in a savage and primitive style. Therefore, we can see how his behaviour has been affected as a result of his compassion and need to hunt. This change in his behaviour is very significant as hunting is how Jack begins to establish his power over the group. Soon after the killing of the first pig, Jack is able to become more powerful and Ralph begins to realise this so he says, “I’m calling an assembly.”, as he feels in danger of losing control.

In the novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding is able to use his outstanding writing abilities utilizing metaphors, symbolism, and other literary devices to establish a hidden message throughout the novel. The hidden message that Golding builds on is that there is a natural evil inside every human being, which is suppressed in an organized society through laws, rules, and punishment. The young boys in the novel are on an island all by themselves. There is no punishment for their actions, therefore allowing that evil to come out of most of the boys. All humans have an innate evil within them and that evil is brought out when there is a lack of civilization and consequence as seen in Simon’s murder,

By the end of the novel, it was apparent that the boys on the island had changed completely from the innocent school boys they were to killer savages. Although the boys did not start off as killers, life on the island transformed them into this beast. As we see with Jack, the first time he went hunting, he failed to kill the pig, but now he has been obsessed with making it his goal. This was a turning point in Jack because it starts his transformation into this savage killer in which he knows when the novel goes onto to speak about how, “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”(Golding 51). The whole idea of failing to kill the pig is just frustrating to him to the point where he is set on doing it.

Jack encounters a pig in a hunt and is unsuccessful the first time, he wounds the pig and doesn’t kill it. The second time around he gathers more people to go hunt with him including Samneric who are the fire watchers. With Jack being too focused on hunting he does not realize the consequence for his action. The consequence being that the signal fire going out. Jack does not care too much because he has been introduced to brutality. Killing and hunting is what Jack now loves to do, it is sport for him. Jack puts hunting before everything, even before getting rescued. Jack's personal bias overwhelms the fact that they all could have possibly been rescued. His only concern is to get meat. “We can light the fire again you should’ve been with us Ralph we had a smashing time” (91). Jack is now all in for hunting he doesn’t care about getting rescued at all. He just wants to have fun and enjoy himself and not have to follow any rules. The beast continues to emerge from Jack by chapter 5 Jack decides to leave and create his own group that is centered on hunting. “I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.” “Anyone can come if you want we can hunt our own pigs.” (127). Jack is now changing, he no longer wants to be with Ralph. He wants to do his own thing and not have to listen to what Ralph has to

The boys become more barbaric as the beast becomes their fear. The boys start to separate more and more because human nature gets the best of them. Jack calls a meeting and declares Ralph to be impeached as leader of all of boys. No one stands up to vote for Ralph to be impeached, so Jack storms away saying anyone who wants to go with him can, “I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs.. Anyone who wants to hunt when i do can come too” (Golding, pg 127). By saying this Jack was seeking attention. This is when Jack showed his power and starts to make his own tribe. Later in the book Jack has his first interaction with a pig, he does not kill it. It is the polite and courteous part of Jack that doesn't kill the pig. He

The beginning of the pigs’ evolution starts with the pig being a food source for the boys and, what helps keep them alive. Jack is head strong about proving himself as a leader so, he makes killing the pig a priority for him. Golding shows the importance of the pig to Jack when he states that “there is food...there is everything”(35) at a meeting; bringing up the pig as a main subject in their discussion. The only idea the boys categorize the pig with at this present time in the novel is for food, which displays the importance of the creature at the beginning. Because the boys are not yet familiar with killing, Jack and his hunters have a difficult time bringing back a kill within the first few tries; almost as if they are already fearing

Human’s nature has created the societies to maintain order and peace, but as everything, humans have defects and so does the society they created. This statement has been proven in many works of literature, if it be The Hunger Games series showing the defects in fictional future societies or Unbroken showing the defects of the society from past events. William Golding, a Nobel Prize winner in literature, created the novel, Lord of the Flies, forever changed our view on human natures effects on society. Golding used Lord of the Flies to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. Golding prominently uses day to day items as symbols to express his theme; if it be the fire for heat, the conch for calling an assembly or the beast of their imaginations; each item had its own way to develop the theme. As the fire started of as a resource of hope, it later changed to a weapon of unspeakable power. The conch that had one been used to call an assembly turned into a reason to kill. Even the beast, that started as a reason for the little’uns to cry became an object to blackmail others into join a rival clan. Each of these items showed much more than what the appeared to be in the novel.