The Vain Jackdaw Analysis

Jack is the character that most represents the Id. All that he ever cares about it hunting, which is basic desire for food. “He [Jack] spun on his heel, center of a bewildered circle of boys. ‘I got you meat!’ Numberless and inexpressible frustrations combined to make his rage elemental and awe-inspiring” (Golding 74). Jack helps the boys revert to their “inner child” by teaching them to repress their underdeveloped Superegos.

Jack is only interested in power, he acts like a dictator and doesn’t follow the communities thoughts. Some actions that Jack takes that shows this are "I got the conch," said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” “The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain," said Jack, “So you shut up.” This shows how Jack acts like dictator because he doesn’t listen to what the people say. “He's not a hunter. He'd never have got us meat. He isn't a perfect and we don't know anything about him. He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk-.” This shows how Jack is power hungry and will basically do anything to get it, he is trying to make Ralph look like a bad chief in order for him to try to take the power away from him and get it for himself. “We’ll raid them and take fire. There must be four of you; Henry and you, Robert and Maurice. We'll put on paint and sneak up.” This shows how Jack uses his power to make his tribe members listen to his orders and steal the members of the other tribes. Jack is only interested in power and wants the power for his own

If you had been alone in the jungle, with the thought that something might be out there to get you, the sound of shelter, protection and food sounds very appealing. Which is a strategy jack uses in order to gain more followers in his group. These are adult promises which appeal to the children. They are afraid that if they do not join his group, they will suffer. But before he gets to making his own group, he weakens Ralph’s ability to create a sense a security by saying,”’He’s not a hunter. He’d never have got us meat. He isn’t perfect, and we don’t know anything about him’” (83) Jack says this to make a point that Ralph isn’t fit to lead the group, he is creating fear in the children's minds that they won't be safe under Ralph’s watch. Once Jack has the attention of some of the children and gained their loyalty he sets rules in place. “‘We’ll hunt. I’m going to be chief. [...] And about the beast. [...] Forget the beast. And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here.’” (133) At that point it seems as if jack is trying to eliminate some of that fear from the kids to build strong hunters on his side. The children are afraid. Once jack degrades Ralph in front of them, they are afraid of inadequate safety, which they now feel that jack can provide. Fear is evident in the children at this point in the

“Banish Plump Jack, and banish all the world”. To what extent does Falstaff embody the qualities of his world?

When I hear the words “Jack Tales” I think of the tale Jack and the Beanstalk. Where Jack sales his cow for magic beans. Then, his mom throws them out the window and a magic beanstalk through the night. Jack decided to climb the beanstalk several time and while up there he would take stuff from the giant while he was asleep. When Jack tried to steal a magical harm, the giant woke up. Jack rans down the beanstalk with the giant behind him. When he got to the bottom he took his ax and cut down the beanstalk. The giant being on the beanstalk when Jack did this fell down and hit the ground dying.

Shortly after Jack’s rebellion and the forming of a new tribe, his violence transitions from insults to murder. Instantly, After the death and murder of Piggy and the destruction of the conch, Jack tells Ralph, “there isn’t a tribe for [him] any more” and proceeds to claim that “[he’s] chief”. Jack’s reaction to another individual's deaths shows the evil that resides within him as he no longer cares about human life, only power. He wanted to break the conch, because that’s what inforced the rules and was like magnet pulling the boys to Ralph’s tribe. Jack would do anything to get rid of it, even at the life of another. Piggy’s death signified the things Jack

In this quote golding he uses diction to show how young the kids really are when he has jack calls everyone a bunch of sissies and cry-babies because that is the type of childish language they use. This is important because kids are already very impulsive because of their lack of wisdom and experience and now jack is trying to get them to fear him, by sparking the idea in their head that if they remain afraid of this beast they will be a pariah which is making them even more impulsive and leading them towards their primitive state..

Jack sets his views straight as he believes that hunting is good enough for a tribe to live off. He also tries to encourage others this way by bringing up fun in hunting, thus taking them away from the boring "working life" that Ralph has to offer. In the quote itself, Jack states that the others can go when he wants to go. This may be a foreshadow of the type of leader he is, and what he may do. The quote also informs the reader that Jack has set his priorities straight, and that he

Jack asserts his authority by making the chief, Ralph seem weaker, therefore creating a stronger picture of himself to the other boys; a better leader than Ralph. When Jack says ‘He’s like Piggy’ it conveys weakness, as Piggy is seen as a feeble character, which Jack believes isn't a trait that a leader should have. He also says Ralph ‘isn’t a proper chief’ this implies Jack is trying to turn everyone against Ralph to improve his status on the island. In addition, Jack gains admiration from the other boys by promising to protect them from the beast. For example, he says ‘If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down!’.

The physical appearance of Jack also changes greatly within the novel. Golding portrays Jack’s fixation with hunting to cause this. At the beginning of the novel, his image is described as like the other choirboys, wearing shorts, a shirt and a black cloak, “finished off with a hambone frill”. However, we see that in Chapter three, his physical characteristics have now changed from a choirboy to a hunter. This is shown where it says, “His bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn…he was naked.". His image also becomes

At its core, art is about creatively expressing ideas that otherwise could not be expressed. To do so properly, an artist must be able to think differently from the common human being. In some cases, these different ways of thinking stem from mental illness. Three examples of such artists are Richard Dadd, a 19th century English painter, Jacks McNamara, the subject of the documentary Crooked Beauty, and the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper. For all three of them, their insanity did not hinder their ability to succeed artistically. Instead, it gave a deeper context to the brilliant works that they produced.

Jack is a picky, mean, and bossy leader that doesn’t care about everyone, but only cares for some people and himself. Jack picks out the people he doesn’t like. He doesn’t care about Piggy because he’s probably really

Once these boys join Jack’s tribe, they are forced to follow his orders, committing heinous atrocities against their former friends in a desperate attempt to avoid the physical punishment Jack inflicts on those who disobey him. Jack rules his subjects through fear and intimidation, and yet lures them in by playing on hidden desires unbeknownst to them. Jack is often shown acting cruel and menacing towards the other boys, however is he also shown as being self-conscious and a bit insecure: “Boys are desperate to distract from their own helplessness and do so by projecting their fear of subjection onto an even weaker

First of all, when Jack was around the age of 10, and moved to his new house across town, he was being constantly bullied by another kid in the same neighborhood after Laohu, the tiger, broke one of the kid’s toys. He was obviously upset one day at dinner as the kid, Mark, had been popular at school and was constantly bullying him.Consequently, he decided to lash out at his mother, whom he blamed for his

This is a story about a young fellow named Jack, who wasn’t a lot older than you when this happened. Now Jack lived with his mother and daddy on a small farm, but they were in bad shape. The crops didn’t make good that year, Jack’s daddy was having to go further and further to find work and do a little hunting so they’d have something to eat. Jack decided that he was big enough to go out and get a job so he could help buy food for his family. So Jack’s mother packed him some food to take, (Jack was especially fond of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches), gave him a big hug and sent him out the door with prayers for his safety. Jack traveled down the road for almost a week, his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were all gone, and he was really getting hungry when he saw a great big farm off to the side of the road. He thought surely they’d give him something to eat, even if it was just some apples or carrots. So Jack went up to the house and knocked on the door. A really kind looking man came to the door and saw how pitifully hungry Jack looked and took him inside for lunch. Now the farmer was a really nice man, but his wife was mean. She didn’t like sharing their food with anyone and she really didn’t like Jack. She was sure he’d steal something so she decided she had to get rid of him. But the farmer offered Jack a job on the farm, if he’d take care of the animals. So Jack went out and fed the pigs, and the cows, and the chickens and worked as