What Does Jack Represent In Lord Of The Flies

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

Lord of the Flies takes place around World War II. A group of boys are traveling by plane evacuating from a war area. The plane crashes in an ocean, and the

delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever...The rock struck Piggy with a glancing blow (Golding 180). This statement describes Roger's feelings about killing, and it obviously doesn't matter that much to him. He wasn't thinking before he acted.

Piggy soon tries to speak, hoping to remind everyone about rules, morals, and being rescued, and then Roger shoves a rock at him which forces Piggy’s death and the breaking of the

Once Roger leaves Ralph’s group he is manipulated by Jack, and he joins his group, so Jack can tell him whatever he wants him to do. Jack, Roger and another hunter one night went and attacked Ralph and Piggy and stole Piggy’s glasses. Ralph and Piggy went to Jack’s camp site to try and peacefully retrieve them. As Ralph and Piggy are walking up to Jacks camp, Roger and other boys are waiting for them as guards. “Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them, his one hand still on the lever. Below him Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat” (Golding 180). This quote shows that Roger views these two human beings as targets. When they arrived on the island, he was a peaceful boy who was in the choir, who is now so brainwashed by Jack and savagery that he kills Piggy. The island would have brought out the evil in all of them on its own, but Jack sped up the

He “led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones,” only to remain, “watching the littluns.” Maurice, however, “still felt the unease of wrongdoing.” Jack’s only fault was yearning for power, which corrupts those who wield it. Roger is corrupted and malevolent without ever thirsting for this power, and is therefore more evil than Jack. Roger keeps to himself, much like Simon, and remains consistently evil throughout the novel. Near the beginning, he “picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss,” held back by “the taboo of the old life.” Later, he did not miss and “with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever,” releasing a huge boulder and killing Piggy. Under the weight of the boulder, “the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” The main symbol for the democracy, equality and justice was indirectly destroyed by Roger. To him, “Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat,” thus dehumanizing and objectifying them. When Sam and Eric were cornered by Jack’s group of savages, Roger demonstrates his enjoyment for hurting others by “[advancing] upon them as one wielding a nameless authority.” It was not for the sake of supremacy or control, but for unbridled sadistic pleasure. When Ralph finds Sam and Eric, they say that Roger is “a terror”. He also points out that Jack is a terror, but the twins respond with “only

Jack using his hunting skills finds a pig and attempts to catch it but fails. On his way back to the beach he finds Simon and Ralph building shelters by themselves. Ralph begins to get frustrated because the hut he working on keeps falling apart. He states that everyone would be excited about an idea and work on it for a few days but then they lose interest and do their own thing. Jack reminds Ralph that he is chief and he should tell the other boys off. Ralph then pointed out that Jack always goes out to hunt but never bring any meat back. Jack argument is that everyone wants meat and that he will soon catch a pig. Ralph bring up that the little ones are having nightmares at night as a reason to have shelters because it’ll resemble a home

One night the boys were taking it too far and killed Simon. Piggy and Ralph are then outcasted from the rest of the group. When they go to get Piggy’s glasses back, Roger pushes a rock off the cliff and kills Piggy. Then the group turns on Ralph. The boys then try to draw Ralph out of the trees with a fire, hoping to kill him.

cut open the pig’s throat and the pig collapsed under him” (135) In other words, Jack is

boys impaled the dead pig with a spear up it’s behind, and laughing afterwards. Jack then

In the beginning, Jack is an imperious, innocent, red haired school boy who was demanding the second he walked onto the beach. He was the head of the choir and thought that because he could sing he should be a leader essentially because of his amazing vocals. Uniformity and authority were some of the only things that mattered to him. Jack had a desire for power above all things and when he wasn't elected chief over Ralph he became furious. He starts to push boundaries and does what he wants. Rules start to become disobeyed and he puts his needs before the needs of anyone else. Early on, Jack retains the sense of moral propriety and behavior that society has instilled in him. The very first time that Jack encountered a pig he failed to kill it "I was going to [stick the pig].

Roger is just an evil, bully in the story, who does evil things to innocent people. "Roger stopped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry" (page 64). Henry is not doing anything wrong, there is no reason for Roger to throw the rocks at Henry, which is evil because he is picking on him and picking on people is evil. In addition, Roger is the one who literally killed Piggy, "High overhead, Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever" (page 180). Piggy is not an evil person, but Roger kills him anyway not caring about any of the other boys mentally or physically. As a result, Roger by far has the most evil in

The transformation from a childish democracy to a strict immature dictatorship happened in a shockingly short amount of time. Jack’s only intention of becoming chief was to become a dictator, and to abuse the power of leadership. Jack has shown obvious interest in becoming a leader. As Jack presents his roles and responsibilities, the boys see Jack as a fun, adventurous role model. As life on the island goes on, the boys eventually follow Jack over Ralph as chief. The boys see Jack as the bigun who deserves to be chief, only because they are coming from an immature mindset.

Ralph is a young boy who has a lot of determination and drive to be rescued. He gets this mindset to be rescued almost too controlling in this matter and consequently resulted in rivalry. Ralph could’ve been a good leader, But due to his “drive”, the other boys didn’t agree with his plan so forth spewing jealousy from Jack. Jack soon, then, rounded up some boys who followed him and viewed him as the “ruler”.

Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of boys. During an unnamed time of war, a plane carrying a group of these boys is shot down over an Island. The pilot and all of the adults on the plane are killed, leaving the boys to find themselves deserted on an uninhabited island, where they learn to survive. During the book the author, William Golding implies that human nature strives to create a society but will fail due to poor leadership when fear intrudes on the society.