Lord Of The Flies Jack Character Analysis

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.

In the book, the readers can tell that Jack only cares about savagery and hunting pigs. Jack feels that he can replace Ralph as leader, because Ralph does not take much of responsibility. He falls into the savagery category because when he puts on the mask to kill the pigs, it hides his inner inhibitions. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”(pg. 69). This quote shows Jack’s evil side when it comes to the death of their first pig, and it is also a political allegory. “The conch doesn’t count on the top of the mountain… so you shut up.”(pg. 42) Jack feels like he is a dictator, so he decides to take control of Piggy. “You should have seen the blood!”(pg. 70). This shows Jack’s loss of innocence, and the savagery inside him and the

Before Ralph and Piggy unifies all of the boys on the island, Jack already ceases control on the choirboys. While Jack and Ralph are trying to address their problem, Jack screams at the choir boys to get them to do what he wants. After the

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

Even though many supporters suggest that Ralph is a great leader, it is obvious that Jack is the best leader on the island. Since the boys set foot on the island, Jack was honest, and he never hesitated to express his feelings. “Human nature cannot be so irremediably bad if the arrival of one adult can immediately put everything to rights” (Reilly,10). This quote explains that when Jack was introduced on the island he was a great leader, and this made the boys realize they each have individual responsibilities in order to contribute to the group. While being honest, Jack demanded the group to do what he wanted, and the boys would obey him. “Jack at first demands to be called as at school, Merridew, the surname his mark of superior age and authority”(Oldsey 4). This quote illustrates that Jack immediately separated himself from the other boys on the island.

Jack shows that savagery is like an illness and only gets worse over time. After Jack kills the first pig, he proudly says, “’I cut the pig’s throat’” (Golding 69). In this quote, Jack is proud of killing a defenseless sow; this proves that by nature humans are savage because a young, innocent child like Jack killed a mother pig who was nursing her young. Without a real man to look up to, Jack thought being a man meant acting as though he was tough and killing everything he saw. This is a mindset of a savage person. In addition to this scene, Jack leads the charge that killed Simon. This also proves that humans are savage by nature because Jack had no

He and his hunters have trouble trying to hunt and kill a pig because he has not had any experience in anything like this before. He continues struggle in being a hunter. At this moment he still has not made his decent into primitive savagery as he ends up at the end of the novel. However, the author does mention that Jack has primitive urges of a savage characteristic early “He [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up." (51) This shows how Jack’s primitive desires are truly to hunt and kill. After a couple of attempts, Jack and the hunters finally brutally attack and kill a pig. This is the first step of Jack's transformation from being civilized into savagery Jack has lost his innocence in killing his first creature. From then on Jack becomes very confident in his hunting abilities and transitions into savagery, which brings out the evil in him. He now wears a mask over his face and always has the desire to hunt and becomes thirsty for

By disobeying Ralph’s rules, Jack is trying to weaken the rules. Jack still has an effect on the boys, and his breaking of rules weakens the their will to follow them. In a later meeting, Jack claims that Ralph “isn’t a proper chief” and that “[he’s] going off by [himself].” Jack’s departure weakens Ralph’s tribe, since the choir has been with Jack before the crash on the island, and showed loyalty to him on the island. This results in a majority of the boys abandon Ralph for Jack. Some of the non-choir boys go off with Jack’s tribe, because of the beast they want protection from. They believe his hunters will supply that. Jack is no longer under control, but is now in control. Jack’s department of the tribe, and weakening of the boy’s opinion on Ralph leads to his desire for power being satisfied.

This indicates the Jack fears killing the pig at first, a fear he overcomes as he sheds civilisation and adopts the way of the savage. He then uses fear of beast to control the boys and creates his own tribe and promises of “having fun” (pg. 150) but later, breaks his promise and mistreats the boys. As he empowered, he got more violent. As a chief, Jack showed off his power to the group by hunting, putting Ralph down, and controls the weak. The hunter’s chants “Kill the pig.

When Jack was first asked to kill the pig he hesitated. He said, “ ‘I was waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him’ ” (Golding 31). Although it is not directly stated why Jack didn’t kill the first pig, it is assumed that it is because he is a child and this is his first time killing. This is the only time Jack struggles to kill as it starts to consume him from not only killing just animals but people too. An external conflict is Jack wants to be chief, which causes a tension between him and Ralph. When it was first decided that the boys needed a chief Jack said, “ ‘A Chief! A Chief! I ought to be Chief!’ ” (Golding 22). This was the first time Jack showed any interest in becoming a leader which grew stronger the longer they where on the island. He lets becoming chief consume him and he begins to loose sight of who he

Jack had finally killed the pig and he knows it. The show of twitching can be shown as the lasting exhilaration from the kill. It is supported by this quote “He danced a step or two, then remembered his dignity and stood still grinning.” (Golding 69). That shows that jack enjoyed the killing of the pig. Jack now has had a taste in vitally harming another living being physically. This experience influences jack’s action to be more bolder with his new found confidence. Before he was restrained by his consciousness of killing another living being, but now all that has been lost. He starts to act like a savage becoming more domineering and careless of his actions towards others because of the skill experience that he has gained of hunting down an animal. “Jack smacked Piggy’s head.” (Golding 71). Jack’s action becomes more unrestrained and vicious. Before he would only verbally abuse Piggy because society restraining him from any physical violence. But after the killing of the pig, Jack begins to get violent and physical. As shown in the quote when he smacks Piggy’s head. This is one of the two main points of jack’s turn from civility into savagery. These actions without laws and persecution lets jack’s savagery flow out. He begins to act more unrestrained without the punishments voiced criticism of society. And as the leader of hunter’s he begins to influence others to act the

I think that is I was in the same situation as Jack I wouldn’t be able to kill the pig either. Just as the boys didn’t want to have to deal with the “unbearable blood” I wouldn’t have been able to stand the blood either. It would have been like in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth where Macbeth couldn’t get the blood off his hands because of the guilt. I wouldn’t feel nearly as guilty as Macbeth did if I just killed a pig but I would still feel bad and probably would keep reflecting back on what I did. Millions of animals are killed each day for food and I don’t have

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 beginning, Jack is not cruel.. From the start, Jack has a sense of innocence until killing of their first pig. However, as the story carries on, this changes. Jack and his choir were obsessed with hunting and slaughtering a pig because of the power and bloodlust they are given from killing another animate object. While killing their first pig, the boys chant, ““Kill the pig! Cut its throat! Spill her blood!”. These words, started by Jack, are cruel because they could have killed the pig

Throughout the beginnings of the novel Jack constantly yearns to hunt and kill the pigs that evaded him in Chapter 1. In Chapter