Jack In Lord Of The Flies

In this quote, the reader is shown to what extent Jack has been affected by living on the island. He’s been affected to the point that he is now described in words that would normally describe an animal. You would never think of a 12 year old boy having a “bloodthirsty snarl” as oppose to the innocent giggle or chuckle of a young child. He is literally becoming “one with his prey.” Along with some of the other boys, he has lost his morals, innocence, necessity for rules and order and turned into a bloodthirsty monster capable of killing, like he and the other boys killed Simon.

“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.

Jack’s thirst for power for the sake of dominance develops a sense of dictatorship. When killing the sow, the shift in Jack is clear. Jack no longer looks to control nor shield himself from savagery; instead, he embraces it: “His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink” (Golding 70). The sense of power Jack receives from his kill is enough to completely take over his actions. Power is a drug to Jack, and he has become addicted. This addiction continues to affect his life, and more importantly, the lives of those he has surrounded himself with. Dropped “He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Godling 64). Golding uses juxtaposition and zoomorphism to inhibit this effect. Jack shifts from dancing to snarling in a matter of seconds, showing his vulnerability to the evil which has taken root in his heart. Jack is no longer human; he is a savage. It is known that money changes people. However, this is not true. With money comes power; power changes people. Jack has lost all control and power over his own life. So, he looks for control and power in the lives of others.

Jack hesitated to kill the pig a fear of his which he conquers by converting from civilization to the savage way of the island. This quote displays Jack’s transformation into a savage had not yet started, he was still humane, in this case his humanity won over his savageness. This basically shows that not everyone starts off evil or bad, but it grows gradually over time, mostly due to a certain trigger. Jack’s trigger

Jack loves power and only likes laws and rules because it lets him punish others who break them to show his power. In this quote he shows his love of hunting and killing because he gets the chance to dominate nature, "Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!" (Golding Chapter 4) . He always gets mad when he doesn't get his way and in the end of the book he becomes the leader, controlling the power for his benefit only. Jack Symbolizes the human love of dominance and

Jack is one of the strong examples that humans can be bad. He enjoys killing pigs, as he states “ ‘There were lashings of blood,’ said Jack, laughing and shuddering, ‘you should have seen it!’ ” (Golding 69). This quote shows that there is evil in Jack and it will be difficult for him to go back to his old nice self. He does not think about getting rescued, he wants to shed more blood. Another quote that proves humans can be evil is, “ ‘You would, would you? Fatty!’ … Jack smacked Piggy’s head” (Golding 71). This shows that Jack is very savage and is willing to hurt anyone. He wants to take control of the kids and become leader. He helps bring meat for the boys, but his brutal side will get him

Throughout the story, Jack was promised many things only to discover that the promise was not sincere. One example, is when Jack is told he will be able to shoot at the Chinook Turkey Shoot. When he arrives Dwight, the person who said he could shoot, informed him that it was adults only; Jack is understandably disappointed (p. 71). This relates to the meaning of the novel, because Jack soon starts to learn that he should not lean on others. The farther we get in the story, the more we see him try not to depend on others. This results in him trying to take his future into his own hands. Taking all of this, it is safe to believe the meaning of the novel is to depend only on yourself as others are quick to disappoint. This detail fit the best

William Golding uses the character of Jack to represent the idea of human beings use reason to control their primal instincts but may become addicted to the sense of empowerment through violence/when civilising rules are absent, individuals may regress into savagery. Through his portrayal of this character, he demonstrates that through Jack’s acts of aggression, he is portraying traits and attributes of insanity as he descends into savagery, to which he accepts and abides by. This alludes to Golding’s post WWII context when Jack’s humanity hindered his chances of killing the pig, which in turn affected his opportunity to demonstrate his superiority to the group, over the weak and vulnerable. This intensified his urge, the urge to quench his

In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, a group of boys are evacuated to an island. One of the boys, Jack, has immeasurable leadership skills and becomes more savage as time goes on. When Jack arrives on the beach for the first time, he brags that he was “head boy”(22) when he is still trying to run the island with an organized set of rules. Also, the first time Jack tries to kill a pig, he hesitates because of the “enormity”(31) of killing a living thing. Yet not too much later, Jack is in the woods being more a “furtive thing”(49) instead of something usually found in society, like a hunter. Jack has taken on a leadership role by trying to provide for the group but has become almost feral in this moment. Furthermore, Jack laughs but

Many people considered Jack the evil force in Lord of the Flies and rightfully so. However, evil is relative. To Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker is the evil force in the galaxy. The values of a “good” king that are shown in Beowulf and Lord of The Flies(LOTF) are practically identical. However, the sense of closeness and brotherhood is missing in LOTF.

Many of you may be thinking a beast is someone who is ugly, big, and monstrous, but is that really true? A beast can be within ourselves. The beast is us. In William Golding’s “The Lord of the Flies” includes many monstrous behavior, a boy like Jack. Whom was stuck on the island with other boys. He was different. Very dark, someone who wanted to take initiative with every chance he had, a dictator is what he was in somewhat form. Believing based off of his real intention, Jack is the beast within himself. He was hard headed. He believed his actions were beneficial they were because of how helpful they were to the other boys. Many of his characteristics weren’t good, because he had no good intention. Jack is a dictator, hypocritical, and someone

Without Rules and Society we would have a bunch of people being savages and acting crazy in our life. In “Lord of the Flies” William Golding uses the change in setting to highlight the theme that man needs civilization in order to tame his inner animal instinct/savagery. When the boys first land on the island, Golding characterizes Jack as a young school boy obsessed with rules and power. After spending some time on the island, Golding’s characterization of Jack begins to change, he becomes increasingly savage.

Jack is on of the most important character in the LOTF. He is the British and also the oldest boy who met an accident on the sea during WW2. The reason why I choose to put him as high on the scale of power because he is physical violence, savagery, desire for power. Jack used his physical strength to overrule who would not obey him. For example, at the assembly, He showed his power by hit Piggy in his stomach "stuck his first into Piggy's stomach," because Piggy criticized him, this shows that Jack has all the power in his hand, therefore, nobody wants to against him. Yet, he used harmful language to humiliate and make Piggy feel insecure when he said: "And you shut up! Who are you anyway? Sitting there telling people what to do. You can't hurt, you can't sing."

Throughout the novel, the three main characters demonstrate each of the Freudian traits Jack the id, Ralph the ego and Piggy the superego. Jack the id will need to seek instance gratification of his primal needs. Ralph the ego will have to hold back the impulsiveness of the id until the time is socially acceptable. Piggy the superego is the close connection to a moral compass.

Jack is shown to give in to cruelty, with a “compulsion to