In Lord of the Flies, when Ralph and Jack compete for leadership of the boys, most of the boys show their loyalty to Ralph; by making him to leader of them. But as the book continues, and Jack becomes more savage, the boys cast off moral restraint and embrace violence and savagery. That is apparent when Jack tells the boys to “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (96).
Lord of the Flies is the perfect example of how fear is a deadly driving force. The boys demonstrate savagery and heartless actions as fear increases within them. When the boys arrive on the island, excitement and power overcome them due to the lack of authority. However, their actions reveal the insecurity that lies within each of them. Knowing they will need food to stay alive, the boys decide they have to kill a pig.
Ralph was upset because the fire had gone out. “There was lashings of blood,” said Jack, laughing and shuddering, you should have seen it!”(69) This quote is an example of how the boys were violent throughout the book, and became progressively more deranged. The boys hunted and killed a pig, when Jack explained that the head of the beast was to be a gift to the beast. “Jack spoke loudly. This head is for the beast.
The many decisions and events that take place are not ones for literary purposes, but instead to show the ways of humanity. For example, the death of Simon was not for the interesting plot, but to prove the overwhelming feelings the boys have towards killing the beast and the pig. This I shown through the boys not recognizing Simon, and letting the chanting and overwhelming thoughts of the hunt take over them, proving that humans often take things to a whole new level of excitement. Many of
As a result, Jack painting his face represents him letting go of society and civilization, to being a savage devoted to hunting and killing. Jack demonstrates the most change in the novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. All Jack longs for is power, and when he gets the opportunity to be in charge of being a hunter and killer, he is the first to lead the boys down a path of savagery, and cast off the restraints of being a civilization by painting his face. As a result, he is a savage boy who wants to
Ralph, unlike Simon, has not figured out that he is fighting not only Jack, but the evil inside all mankind. Simon had figured that out when he had his "conversation" with the pig's head. The head told Simon "I'm part of you." Since Simon's conversation was part of an epileptic hallucination, the realization that the evil is inside of man must have come from Simon himself. Unfortunately Ralph, has been so focused on trying to lead the boys, thinking they would follow him simply because he was chief.
In chapter 3 when ralph approaches jack to inform him that they need his help building shelters, not going hunting. “And they keep running off…” “Except me and my hunters…” (50) Here we see that ralph and jack do not get along because jack feels that since he is out hunting all day, he doesn’t need to contribute anything else to the group. * The littluns speak out of line with out the conch. * Conch is broken Body paragraph 3: evil destroys and corrupts the naturally innocent * Humans are naturally born as innocent beings, but when exposed to the society, they also face the risk of being harmed and corrupted by the societal settings they live in. During the coarse of the novel, there are subtle changes that take place in the behavior of the boys’.
He believes that if they want to find out what it is they should go towards it instead run away this one fact sets him apart from the rest of the tribe, it also gives him this fearlessness that none of the other boys have. When everyone is afraid to go back to Piggy and the littluns Simon volunteers: “Simon pushed his way to Ralph’s elbow. ‘I’ll go if you like. I don’t mind honestly’” (117). His fearlessness shines through and reveals that he is not afraid of the beast.
When the boys are dancing and chanting around the bonfire, they mistake Simon for the beast and brutally kill him with “no words…but the tearing of teeth and claws. In all the excitement at the bonfire, the boys show that they have become undomesticated since when they first got to the island. Their obsession with the beast has led to development of animal-like instincts, causing them to react in violent behavior in order to protect themselves. Lastly, the third death in the novel is heartless and intentional murder, proving that the boys have lost all sense of sympathy and have turned to killing to maintain power over each other. After Roger pushes Piggy down the mountain knocking Piggy to his death, Jack steps forward and begins “screaming wildly” and warns Ralph that if he doesn’t join his tribe, that “that’s what [he’ll] get”.
Even though he has been selected as chief of the island, his voice was gradually becoming useless. The followers fancied an achiever like Jack, not just a speaker. Ralph's most important objective was to go gome, but the boys were too caught up killing pigs to realize that the fire had been left uncared for. Infuriated that the chances of being rescued vanished, the leader demands an explanation for the lack of responsibility. But at that instant, Ralph realizes his leadership lacks contron as he "...watched them envious and resentful" (Golding, 79).