Jack is constantly challenging Ralph’s authority throughout the novel and wanting a position of power. When he first discovered the thrill of killing during his hunt for pig, he became addicted and couldn’t stop. “While the boys were making huts for shelter, Jack was off hunting instead of helping with the huts. All he cared about was that the boys needed meat” (55). Unlike most of the other boys, not only did Jack become a savage, but also he became a murderer.
They were afraid of something they that was altogether foreign to them, the way it looked, what it ate, and how it acted. This fear of the unknown, undiscovered beast that lead them to kill a friend and helped fuel their need for bloodshed. Another example of the boys violence come from much earlier in the novel. Jack was describing his hunt with a group of boys. Ralph was upset because the fire had gone out.
A superego is much like a parent; they help the id by holding back their urges and the ego by trying to make them behave morally. A character from Lord of the Flies acts much like the superego does. That character’s name is Piggy. Piggy was the type of kid that no matter what happened; he tried to make things better (Barron 1). One was when the boys were stuck on the island, Piggy was always picked on by Jack, the id, and ignored by Ralph, the ego, yet Piggy still tried to warn others of the tragedies ahead of them.
One other group lead by Jack is what made this island a danger to everyone. Having someone to look up to and to look after you is good and bad. The reason for this is because, as a leader, you are either loved or feared. In this case, Ralph is the on who all the kids look up to and love, but when one gets jealous they rebel. Jack’s jealousy in this book is unbearable, you never
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.
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’.
When is loses its power, chaos occurs. For example when Jack states, “And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island−” (Golding, 166). They have an argument and begin a chant. Jack leads the chant and Simon crawls out of the forest to be brutally murdered by the boys. This shows that when a once huge symbolism of power loses its significance, mayhem takes place.
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
There is many arguments covering the topic regarding if man is born like a savage or if it is society that is polluting mankind. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the sanity in Piggy’s last words while Roger slaughters him to death is not enough to bring the events on these pages to a close. Surviving a harsh plane crash with no parents or adults of any kind, creates a problem for most of the boys, including Roger. Roger, due to his inner nature, turns savage in the jungle allowing him to hunt and kill people. Roger’s cruel acts did not just appear out of nowhere; there were things that lead up to the fact that he is getting more dark.
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).