He scares them into doing whatever he wants them to do. For example he tied Wilfred up in the hot sun for no reason, except that he was angry. “He got angry and made us tie Wilfred up He’s been tied up for hours, waiting−” (Golding, 176). This makes the boys not want to betray him or make him angry so they follow his orders. The boys don’t see it that way though; they think he’s a great Chief because he takes them hunting.
Piggy was killed during a fight between the two gangs, one of the members known as roger pushed the rock on top of Piggy. “The rock stuck Piggy a glancing bow from chin knee...traveled through the air sideways from the rock... Fell forty feet and landed on his back. His head opened and came and turned red”. The death of a fellow companion should have at least brought some civilization to the island but since the boys degenerated to savages this wasn’t the case. The boys’ savage show that they are savages by how the pigs are killed.
When Jack gains the support of the boys, this shows that everyone has evil inside of them, but it's usually held back unless something triggers it to come out. Psychological Freud: Jack is the ID because he is driven by his desire for power, control, and the pig meat. In chapter 12, he tries to kill Ralph with the fire, which shows how he really wants the power and will stop at nothing, including killing, to obtain it. Also, he does not
He became absolutely obsessed with hunting and killing pigs. At first it really was just to feed all of the boys, but more towards the end of the story it was for the please of killing the pig to feel powerful and pure primeval. Allowing Jack to become this kind of monster was another mistake that the boys made. Because once he changed other boys started to follow until it was just Ralph and Piggy by themselves and all other boys were in Jack’s tribe. Of course then Piggy was killed.
The boys aren’t mature enough to realize that they are stuck on an island, nobody knows where they are, and they are probably going to die there. All the boys other than Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are completely oblivious to the fact that they need to be rescued, or they will die. All the others care about is having fun, hunting, and acting like a little tribe of savages. Hunting is what’s most important to most of the boys. If Jack and his hunters would have been taking care of all of their responsibilities instead of just hunting all day, if they would have just been watching the fire they could have gotten off the island before anybody could get hurt, before it was a game of life and death.
At this point the boys lost all their sense of humanity and start to openly express their savage instincts. Piggy's death shows an individual, Roger is capable of committing murder. Roger in the beginning of the book invisibly expresses his savage instincts by throwing rocks at a lillun Henry but "throwing to miss"(62). In this scene Roger is well aware and knows that killing is wrong, because he was taught that in his civilized setting. When no consequences was taken for Rogers action, he begins to express his invisible powers more visibly.
“Hands up,’ said Jack strongly, ‘whoever wants Ralph not to be chief?’ …… ‘I’m going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too’ (130). Even though no one leaves with Jack all of a sudden everyone is given a choice in what kind of society they want to be in. With Jack leaving, so does their meat which represents savagery, and the id, but Ralph’s more structured society represents the super ego, which they have been growing up with all their lives.
You’re hurting! All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of Frenzy […] that was a good game. Just a game.” (114-115) If Robert was not screaming and struggling to get out of the grasp of the older boys then he could of easily been killed and no one would have been there to stop it from happening. On the island, everyone believed that there was a beast that wanted to kill everyone. Simon figured out that the beast was actually a dead pilot attached to a parachute.
Simon is never able to teach the boys that there is no beast. Simon did not kill to survive, rather he died to become the representation of the complete loss of innocence on the island. Simon is a Christ-like figure in that he depicts the goodness that is within mankind and truly becomes this through his death. Through his death, however, he shows how evil is powerful and it can run deep in the human soul as it did in the boys who had killed him. Simon is the sacrifice of the boys' insanity and
Roger is in a wild and primal environment as he undertakes saying obscene things to other boys. No matter how old a child is and what he or she is going through, everybody should recognize murder is morally inappropriate and illegal. “Chaos is one thing, fear is another” (Golding, Why 1). Both fear and chaos are on the island as the dispute continues, but it’s no excuse to such reckless behavior. Roger could have indeed chosen to be alongside Ralph in the dilemma of the hunt.