What Is Jack's Descent Into Savagery In Lord Of The Flies

Everyday we would experience chaos and deficiency in this society. From the 80s to this generation the daily lives of our fellow youth loses their innocence to a cruel mind because of how it is ruled by a leader . People wanting to take over and rule the world. Everything changes if we don't have the proper leader to lead our society. In the book The Lord of the Flies is a great example of how these characters change as they were at a uncivilized society. In the novel, Jack is the character who mostly changes throughout the story. The story begins with a war and a plane carrying several young boys who are being evacuated is shot down from the sky. They had to survive in the island while turning into different people then they were before.

Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, has four very important dynamic characters. A dynamic character is a character that develops and grows during the course of the story. Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Simon are four dynamic characters in Lord of the Flies that adapt to their new lifestyles in different ways. Jack is a very important dynamic character in Lord of the Flies because he goes through the most changes during the novel. While on the island, Jack has many life experiences that change him forever. Jack never thought he would live his life the way he is living his life in the island. Jack’s authoritative figure, savage-like/instinctual behavior, and violence are three qualities that make Jack a dynamic character.

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

Having been stranded on a deserted island for so long with no one but a few children, he was hungry and mentally broken. Aware of his imperfections, He proceeded to put on a mask made of paint to act as a camouflage. It not only made him well-hidden from others, but it also hid him from his own guilt, mistakes, and regrets. “The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.” Jack was also described as slowly becoming more inhumane. Children near him described his laughing as becoming more of a “snarling.” The mask had taken control over Jack and made him into a monster. The mask blinded him from the significance of his actions. He later witnesses the deaths of two other children and feels no remorse. The mask had caused Jack to change as a character entirely and become something he originally

Many of the boys want to have fun and see Jack's hunting as the fun

Jack, an evil child from Lord of the Flies was put into power by false hope and intimidation. Even though jack promises food he does not have the best interest of the tribe in mind “we’ll hunt. I’m chief”(Golding 133). Jack shows his evil a bit by mentioning hunting, which is a normal thing to to to but the way jack hunts are brutal, savage, and almost inhuman. Jack uses his power to get the boys of his tribe to brutally kill a pig and nastily chant “kill the pig, cut her throat spill the blood” (Golding 69). He enjoys hurt the other boys on the island ”he felt the point of his spear with his thumb and grinned with amusement. Whoever they tried that on would be stuck squealing like a pig” (Golding 182).This psychopathic adolescent enjoys hurting others which a leader of any kind should not. Jack reacted with violence and aggression towards anyone who dared not

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young British boys are left stranded on an island after a fatal plane crash in the midst of a World War. With no communication to the outer world and no presence or influence of adults on the island, Ralph, Jack Merridew, and Piggy are forced to take initiative if the group of hopeless boys want to survive. The group of boys experience a drastic change throughout their time on the island, a change that no one would ever expect to occur to a young group of primed British boys. The leader of the stranded choirists on the island, Jack Merridew, shows such a change that he soon persuades other boys to follow his savage actions as the novel progresses. Though the changes to Jack’s mental and physical characteristics advance slowly at first, the final personality of Jack is instantly taken over at the climax of the novel to a dehumanized savage. Jack’s innocence is corrupted by his inability to withstand a society without rules proving man's good essential nature is altered by the evil within society.

Jack gets mad at Ralph. Because he blamed by Ralph and he is always a lot of set up. This makes her get bored and go away from Ralph. Jack felt that he more deserves to be a leader. Then, this separate do not make him doubt at all. It is because Jack has an ability of hunting to survive on the island. In addition, there are other kids who follow him and accompanied him to keep each other. it make him sure for what he has decided. It show by Jack's speech when he says that Ralph was not the one leader who deserved,

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” Being brought to a new location or environment can bring out the beast in a man. For Jack in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the island is his war. The new world brings out the worst in Jack, a beast and a savage. Jack’s interaction with killing in this novel is used to show the theme that a savage-like side can be brought out in anyone.

Throughout the novel of Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the way Jack is described changes. Not only how other characters view him but also the way he is described throughout the book. At his first appearance he is described as tall thin and bony with red hair, that his face is ugly and freckled. His blue eyes looked like they were ready to turn into anger. The other characters progressively start to see him as evil and violent as he craves to become leader over Ralph. His main conflict is believing that he deserves to be in charge and Ralph does not. Killing turns into a nature although he struggled at the beginning. Jack becomes viewed as an animal as he becomes so obsessed with being leader, when he struggles to kill the pig it shows his true humanity.

Jack’s hunters show the “darkness of man's heart” and the evil of killing when they start to brutally kill pigs and enjoy it. When the hunters successfully kill their first pig, they start to celebrate in a not so sane way. They start chanting “Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill her blood”(69). By the hunters chanting this, it shows that they enjoyed killing the pig. Killing the pig was a necessary task for obtaining food but it was turned into a form of bloody enjoyment. Later when Jack and his group stumble across another pig, they kill it in a not so quick and efficient way. They all jump the pig and “Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear wherever pig flesh appeared”(135). Jack helps out by repeatedly stabbing down on it with

Throughout the novel, the face paint that Jack and his crew used simultaneously masks their faces as well as their civility. The first mention of the facepaint is made when Jack is strategizing a way to sneak up on a pig and he decides to camouflage himself. Jack says that his “half-concealed face” is “for hunting. Like in the war” (63). The incomplete coverage of the paint indicates that Jack is not fully immersed into his savagery. However, his interest in aggressive acts, hunting and war, insinuates that he does have a tendency towards aggressiveness as well. Perhaps the most blatant reference to the fact that face paint induces savagery within the boys, specifically the hunters, is when Golding states that “the mask compelled them” (64)

Lost on a deserted island with no living adult figure, a group of boys must try and survive together, or alone, until someone comes to rescue them. In Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, one of the main characters, Jack, is a powerful young boy. Jack will only help you if you do something for him. Whether that is being loyal to him, or just helping him. But, throughout the book, his core values change depending on how you are to him.

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

Jack is the first character to don body paint, giving into the temptation of setting the inner beast free. During the duration of Jack's juncture on the island, his grip on society’s rules fades away, and he gives into the desire of acting on every impulse. Before wearing a mask, Roger sees Jack in the distance in a very different light: “When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing” (Golding 62). Underneath