Right here Jack already tries to imply that his choir is more savage than the rest of the boys by calling them hunters. Secondly, Jack once again expresses his need for control by going against the rules that were instilled among the boys in the beginning of the book. Jack says, “Bollocks to the rules! Were strong- we hunt…we’ll close in and beat and beat and beat,” (Golding 99). The excessive control demonstrated by the boys undoubtedly supports the idea that humans are innately evil, and it is also shown in many other ways such as how the boys mistreat each other.
He uses it against them so he can take advantage of their vulnerability and control them. It symbolizes the savagery inside of every person. Only Simon realizes that they fear the beast because it exists inside of them. The existence of the beast is born out of the boys’ behavior and continues to grow with their ferocity. When it begins to storm, Jack instructs his tribe to do their hunting dance.
Most importantly, Jack's disrespect towards the other boys makes him fearful to the others, and therefore the boys feel obligated to follow his orders if they want to avoid consequences. "'The thing is --- fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island.... Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" (Golding 82).
It is almost natural for human beings to care about the way others look at them and to fear the judgments that are place upon them. This fear is a large contributor to the motivations that certain individuals have, consequently affecting their actions. In Hamlet, The Great Gatsby and The Kite Runner, the protagonists Hamlet, Jay Gatsby and Amir are all longing for the love of another, fearing that that individual will judge them for their flaws and mistakes. Both Hamlet and Amir’s main motives result from love of their fathers; Hamlet devotes his life to avenging his father and Amir will do anything to receive his father’s attention and love. Jay Gatsby is also motivated by love, however it is by the love he has for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan.
For the entirety of the book, the tribe fears the beast, as they believe it is “something that they can hunt and kill.” Ironically, it is while hunting the beast, their supposed threat, that the boys become obsessed with a blood-lust manner. Golding represents his idea of evil through the physical persona of a creature in the forest. It is the boy’s misinterpretation of the beast that drives them to become savage and dangerous. The controversy of whether or not the beast
“At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock. Leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.” The “beast” here is referred to Simon. Simon is mistaken by the boys as a beast so they beat him up. The boys are so caught up in the beating as they use as many parts of their body they can to exert violence on Simon: verbal violence in “screamed”, the use of fists and hands in “struck, bit”, and teeth in “tore.” This is significant because Simon is killed by the delusion of the boys and he is the
pg.71). This quote proves that the intensity of not only their rage, but their weapons increases as their paranoia overcomes them. They fear the monster so much that they have become the monsters themselves. Overall, the outcome of the transformation of their weapons clearly defines the loss of innocence. William Golding truly imbraces the theme of the loss of innocence in The Lord of the Flies.
As see on Page 82: “You didn’t ought to have let that fire out. You said you keep the smoke going” “This from Piggy and wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence.” Golding uses these words to show how for Jack’s ignorant mistakes, he becomes violent which corresponds to his evil and connects to the theme: ignorance is the root and stem of all evil. More ignorance is revealed from the characters in the Lord of the Flies when Simon is
We tried keeping the signal fire going but we couldn’t. And then you, playing at hunting…”(Golding 178). He is also probably mad because his tribe is all work and no play and he sees that it’s not fair that Jacks tribe is all play and no work. His emotion turns to anger for Jack because the main objective is to get rescued but Jack is too arrogant to want to work to make it happen. Anger is an important emotion because it leads to violence like in the death of Piggy, Simon, and the attempt to kill
Golding was trying to display that humans have a sickness hidden inside them. This sickness is the urge and desire to be savage, and the longing to have power. Jack proves this by trying to obtain leadership right off of the bat. He wants to control all of the boys and when Ralph is chosen instead of him he gets extremely upset. I also liked the fact that Boyd described that Golding used irony in the setting.