Why Boys Become Vicious By William Golding

In chapter 4, Jack creates a strategic method to successfully hunt down the pig. This desire to kill the pig has distracted and prevented Jack from following Ralph’s orders. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”

Jack got embarrassed when Ralph and Simon made fun of him so he is trying to find a way to redeem himself. Jack was trying to hunt for a pig to show Ralph and Simon that he isn’t afraid of killing pigs, but that didn’t work out since the pig escaped. This made Jack upset since he was unable to show Ralph that he can kill a pig. He had nothing to show Ralph and Simon that he was capable of being a hunter. He is now frustrated and won’t be satisfied until he can kill a pig to show Ralph and Simon.

Kill the pig! Bash him in!"-(114). The group wants to see violence, and wants the pig dead. During this period of pure brutality, their id is taking control, and in one perspective, they are all unified, just not in the right way. When Jack is taken over by his id, bad things happen, "Jack began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling"-(64).

Throughout the story, Jack becomes aggressive, having the urge to kill. In the text, it states, “I cut the pig’s throat” (Golding 69). This shows how Jack is proud to kill the pig, he is the only boy on the Island who is confident enough to kill, foreshadowing that he might even kill more than a pig. As the story goes on, Jack and Ralph now have their own groups and are both chiefs. Ralph cares more about surviving and getting off the Island, while Jack is more interested in hunting and having fun on the Island rather than worrying about surviving, this shows how immature and careless he is.

Pigs in the novel are one of the sources of Jack’s alteration to savagery as the pig-hunts turned him into a cold-hearted and bloodthirsty being. At the beginning of the novel when Ralph, Jack and Simon go off to explore the island, they discover a piglet tangled in the creepers. Jack attempts to kill the pig but couldn’t succeed because the idea “of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh...the unbearable blood” (41) was too dark and evil for him. However, he vows that “next time there would be no mercy” (42). This statement is an initiation to his change in character because after that, he is involved in many hunts. He eventually paints his face to form a mask “behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness” (89). The mask gives him not only a change in appearance but also gives him different identity. Golding describes Jack as follows: “He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger…” (89). The author tells the readers that Jack is no longer himself; he has turned into a complete stranger. Subsequently, Jack establishes a ritualistic chant within his “tribe” after killing a pig; “Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill her blood!” (96). Jack makes it seem like a celebration or something “fun” however the chant truly symbolizes the evil within him and loss of morals he once had. Furthermore, his desire for hunting

Upon killing his first pig, he repeatedly states to the rest of the group how he and the hunters had killed the pig in a way that sounds harsh, cruel and vicious. By saying "I cut the pig's throat, and there were lashings of blood", suggests to the reader, that his savageness has engulfed the civilised Jack, and his cruel behaviour could be potentially contagious to other members of the group. Additionally, Jack isn't the group's

Jack just couldn't bring himself to kill another human being, not at that time, at least. After that incident he felt he needed to prove himself, that he needed to bring himself to kill to maintain his sense of superiority. The need to prove himself and hunt became all he could think about, it ate him alive until thats all he was. A cold-blooded, hunter with a need to kill and complete disregard for anything other than hunting. As a result of this, both Ralph and Jack constantly butt heads in conflict, both prioritizing completely different things. There was even scene in the book when Ralph was trying to talk to Jack about being rescued, and Jack couldn't even grasp the concept of rescue because he was so focused on proving himself and killing a pig he completely forgot how to think about anything

Even though Jack demonstrated his leadership qualities when proposing a rescue plan to the ‘tribe’, and by accepting Ralph’s election to lead the group, something he wanted for himself, he eventually turns into a savage through killing a pig. This incident gives him a sense of power realizing that he can act with impunity without consequences. Wanting to hunt and kill pigs turned into a priority, eliminating the need to be

They were in need of food and so Jack decided to capture the pig that was running through the forest of the island. As the boys made a circle, Jack gets excited that he has just demolished a pig. Jack and a few others cooked the pig over a fire later that night which had filled them with relief that they wouldn’t starve to death. In order to stay alive, Jack argues against the others that “we needed meat” (pg. 75). Initially, Jack seemed excited to kill the pig and even wiped the pig’s blood on his and one of the boy’s face to show that he is fearless and also a fighter. He looks like he’s scared inside but does not want to show it because he is a leader, therefore he looks like he enjoys

When the boys first encounter a pig, Jack plans on killing it. However, with the opportunity in front of him, Jack hesitates and ends up not stabbing it. This failure leads to Ralph remarking; Jack, what are you waiting for? Jack claims that he is unable to choose the correct spot on where to stab it. However, the real reason is his good conscience. Jack is unable to kill a pig because of his values, his conscience is telling him not to do it. Although Ralph questions why he doesn't stab the pig, Ralph and the boys know why Jack doesn’t stab it. “They knew very well why he hadn’t; because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into the living flesh; the unbearable blood” (Golding 31). This viewpoint is held by the boys, as originally, upon arrival at the island, the boys consciousness prevents them from killing a pig, as initially Jack and the boys are innocent and good natured.

In the book Lord of the Flies it shows the way human society is shaping up to be. It displays various unhuman like qualities its explaining how things may come out to be if we don’t help one another figure out solutions. According to Dictionary.com human nature is defined as “the psychological and social qualities that characterize humankind”. Without Respect or Integrity problems can become worse. It's better for society to involve these characteristics because then people get out of hand with their actions then what they say.

Human nature is the collection of distinct characteristics that defines what it is to be a human. In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare and the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, it is debatable what distinctive characteristics are found in human nature. The texts reveal that human nature tends to start as innocent, it is susceptible to corruption, and the duality of human nature. This stance will be illustrated by comparing evidences found within the texts and comparing it with one another.

Even after the first pig is killed and Jack proves his manliness the urge to kill and hunt only grows stronger. As his sole purpose becomes to only hunt he starts to forsake his more civilized side, instead taking on the savage persona of “the hunter” when he covers his face in mud and paint. With this mask to hide behind Jack builds a new sense of false confidence “he looked in astonishment, no longer himself but at an awesome stranger” (Golding, 63) behind this mask jack was no longer the civilized british schoolboy but instead the savage hunter of the

His group begins to show their savage instinct at this point. They start by raiding Ralph’s group for fire. They wear war paint on their face and yell during the night. Simon, who had gone to find the beast and had found the dead man on the hill, came crawling out of the woods, and in their excitement, the savages thought he was the beast. They huddled around him and proceeded to kill him.

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