Jack Merridew Chief Quotes

As a base of human desire and need, power has always been one of the number one desire of mankind since the dawn of time. To place yourself above others, or gain control over your followers or a situation brings safety and comfort to a leader. A well written example of this concept lies within the twisted world created by William Golding in his, “Lord of the Flies”. Throughout the story, Jack seeks power above all else, and stops for nothing in this lustful quest of dominance. We can get a glimpse of Jack’s desires through his iron grip within his choirboys, how he clashes with Ralph, and how Jack’s actions bring about a deeper symbolism underlying within the story.

After a few tries, Jack and the hunters finally catch a pig. The boys and Jack brutally attack it and kill it. This is the first step of Jack's decent to primitive savagery. We see the loss of innocence because Jack has killed his first living creature, and also had a loss of innocence sexually. Now we see Jack become very confident in his hunting ability and we start to see him act more like a hunter. He now wears a mask over his face and always wants to hunt. The author has this to say about Jack and his mask, "the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness" (62).  With the aid of the mask, Jack is now transforming into a different person. He seems to be happier as a hunter. The author also lets us into Jack's mind, for his thoughts on his first kill, "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" (70).

The significance of the character Jack, was thought provoking to the reader, due to his influential change throughout Lord of the Flies. In the beginning of the novel, Jack turned out to be a civilised, organised and authoritative school boy. However, as time went on and many things changed, Jack slowly succumbed to his true, primitive nature. Once Jack was given the role of Chief Hunter, and was able to kill his first pig, he hesitated and realised “the enormity of the downward strike would be”. As a result of this, Jack didn’t attempt to kill the pig, which shows us his underlying innocence. The longer Jack was stuck on the island, the more his inner savagery began to reveal itself to the audience. This in turn caused him to start trying to “convey the compulsion to track down and kill what was swallowing him up”. This drastic change in character reveals to the audience how influential the expectations of society can impact on human nature. Human nature at its purest form is the primitive, savage part of everyone, which is hidden by the rules of society we must follow to survive in a modern civilisation. Society is a person’s biggest influence. Once a young child like Jack is removed

(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.

By the end of the novel, Jack has become a full blown barbarian. He is so caught up in killing pigs that he no longer listens to Ralph. He tries to become chief again and fails. Because of that, he starts his own tribe on the other side of the island where all they do is hunt pigs. The boys that follow him are transformed into the savage that he is. “Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her…Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight. The spear moved forward inch by inch… [t]hen Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands.” Jack and his followers were demoralized and tainted

The children landed uncharted island far from any semblance of police, parents, or even teachers. The island was almost like the “Neverland” that Disney taught us about years ago, but without Tinkerbell and a magical home with all their needs. Jack and the children in this adventure were in a heap of trouble. They were many, some smaller and some bigger (littleuns and bigguns). These kids had to organize themselves into some sort of unit, to more efficiently find a way home. That is where the trouble begins. When one or more humans come together, a hierarchy is always established. Similar to when one goes to a restaurant and the waitress only addresses our father for the majority of the tables decisions. When this hierarchy forms, the decisions this leader takes will always be classified as good or evil, and the society will be judged by the character at their forefront. In William Golding’s novel “Lord of The Flies”, Jack Merridew is the character that takes leadership in the society and proves humanity is inherently evil by demonstrating human’s: selfish tendencies, competitive nature, and hopelessness.

Jordan Yeakle Mrs. Tantlinger Honors English 12 2 January 2018 Title Jack lost all control of himself after he became blood thirsty for killing pigs. Sadly, his need to kill did not end with pigs and it continues to people including a boy named Simon. Jack starts as a strong, independent boy and ends as a savage without control proving that the The evils of man leads to the destruction of mankind.

Jack Merridew is presented as the indifferent, older character of the novel. He is the antagonist and could be seen as a devil figure in the story. Jack is the hunter, the dictator and, throughout the story, is at constant battle with Ralph for his leadership. Jack wants to be in control of the island and the kids but the type of leadership that he offers is brutal and similar to that of a dictatorship and communism. Jack also believes that the group should have fun and stuff oneself with the food they hunt. He is not very concerned with the future of being rescued. On the other hand, Ralph wants order and work and is much more concern with being rescued.

Jack Merridew is nothing short of a devil in disguise. The devilish mask I created represents how corrupt he became throughout the book. Jack, like the devil, wanted to be in power, and went out of his way to get it through darker means, which contributed to his downfall in character. His power-hungry nature created a monster which was bred to kill Ralph and his other companions, even if it weren't by his own hands necessarily. His tribe and followers, like Roger for example, took the lives of Piggy and Simon, and were willing to go farther to make sure Jack stayed in power.

though Jack does not want to be seen as a child, but as a figure of

William Golding’s novel ‘The Lord of The Flies’ tells the story of a group of English boys isolated on a desert island, left to attempt to retain civilisation. In the novel, Golding shows one of the boys, Jack, to change significantly. At the beginning of the book, Jack’s character desires power and although he does not immediately get it, he retains the values of civilized behaviour. However, as the story proceeds, his character becomes more savage, leaving behind the values of society. Jack uses fear of the beast to control the other boys and he changes to become the book’s representation of savagery, violence and domination. He is first taken over with an obsession to hunt, which leads to a change in his physical appearance This change

Jack Merridew is the most significant character in the early chapters of Lord of the Flies because he demonstrates the fragility civility in man. On the island, the group of boys are no longer under any societal laws or expectations. This naturally prompts the question of whether under these conditions they will continue to practice those principles or succumb to savagery. Jack, as the leader of the choir boys, is immediately placed in a power struggle with Ralph who is considered the leader of the other boys because of the conch and his good-looks. When Ralph is elected chief instead of him, Jack feels inadequate and a need to regain his authority. He does this by becoming the leader of the hunters. Hunting starts off as just a mechanism to acquire food that happened to

In Lord of the Flies, Jack is portrayed as an blood thirsty, evil savage that is

This shift inhibit Jack’s loss of childhood innocence and displays his vulnerability to the evil which has taken root in his heart. Jack is no longer human; he is a savage who has lost all control and power over his own life. So, he looks for control and power in the lives of others.

William Golding’s Lord of The Flies is a exemplary piece of literature that brings to view that even little boys are able to regress to man’s natural state of nature. Golding makes known that man’s natural state of nature is in fact evil. Jack Merridew is a marvelous example of transitioning from a civilized young boy into a snarling savage. Jack is an allegory for the dominant theme of savagery creeping in when the rules of society are forgotten; in the beginning, he is aware of his actions and consequences shown through his hesitation to kill, but soon giving into his savage side when he successfully murders a sow, triggering his final form of a fully regressed savage who finds satisfaction through harming others.