Unlike Ralph's peaceful, democratic leadership, Jack believes in violence as a way to rule. Jack uses anarchism, the absence of government, as his method of winning over the boys and convincing them to leave Ralph. When Jack is originally unsuccessful as convincing the boys to convert over to his own methods, he resorts to savagery in order to become successful in gaining power and sovereignty over the boys. Jack's disrespect, desire to hunt, and violent tendencies are all ways in which he gains and maintains power over the converted boys. 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.
Jack is more of a dictator, a violent, forcing leader, giving no one else freedom of speech. When he first leads the choir to the other boys he is described as ‘the boy who controlled them’ this shows he is an obvious and strong leader. It makes him sound intimidating and aggressive. Jack uses lots of imperatives when speaking to the other boys for example ‘choir. Stand still.’ This shows he is very demanding and intimidating.
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.
Thus, he was the boy has a conch .The leadership was the key of all trouble faced them. . The first trouble begins when the boys fears from the “beast” somewhere on the island so , they decide to make a fire to signal any passing ships. To doing that they use the glasses of Piggy. Jack was jealous of Ralph’s power.
Jack desires absolute power, for absolute power the forces of opposition need to be destroyed. That’s why Jack sends all of the boys hunting for Ralph in attempts to kill him; because he was the only boy left that could have the means to take his power away from him.Also to have unconditional power, Jack needs everyone possible to obey him. If boys like, Sam and Eric, didn’t do it willingly, he forces and tortures them into becoming part of his group.
But why do the boy’s efforts to create a civilisation on the island fail? ! The boys elected Ralph as the leader. However, Jack still managed to rise to power which was one of the reasons why the civilisation failed. Jack becomes very popular amongst the boys because of his ability to hunt and the courage he has to kill a live animal with his own bare hands.
He thinks of building shelters to protect them and to start a fire for their rescue. He becomes friend with Piggy, the fat boy that receives taunts and teases from the other boy, and gets used to rely on Piggy's intellectual reasoning. Ralph is brave when the occasion presents it, but he really miss for the secure world of adults, especially when order starts to break down on the island. He dreams about a rescue and insists that the signal fire always has to burn so that they can be seen. Ralph considers that the main reason for the disorder on the island is Jack, the antagonist and representation of evil in the novel.
In this scene, Roderigo is obviously the follower, the weaker character, he tries to please Iago by making racist stabs at Othello (“What a full fortune does the Thick-lips owe if he can carry’t thus”) relating Othello to “thick lips”, which could be a possible insult towards coloured people in those days. Iago is obviously bitter because of the promotion ordeal and the audience are now awear that he is seeking revenge. In this scene, Iago is in control, he appears to be the higher, more powerful man. He is confident in his ideas and determined to get what he wants. He confides in Rogerigo with his plan from the start so we are already able to create this true image of Iago.
He, like Ongka, was not a formal leader but used fear and persuasion to become the “big man” of the crack houses. Ray earned “juice” when he raped a man which caused the people around him to fear and respect him. His way of persuasion is offering protection to all his workers. Ray could not
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.