In the Lord of the Flies, Jack has been trying to destroy Ralph since chapter 1 because he wanted power. “He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief” (112). Jack is telling the boys that Ralph is a coward and doesn’t deserve being leader.
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.
His power was very strong in the beginning of the novel but as Jack began to rebel against Ralph, the rest of the boys went along with him. Jack wanted the power from the beginning of the novel. Jack wanted everyone to vote for him while the other boys nominated Ralph to be their leader. He had a small amount of power with his hunters at the start but as the time on the island progressed, he bribed people with food and threatened them to gain more. Ralph pushed Piggy to one side.
The boys prove man to be inherently evil through control, mistreatment, and murder. In The Lord of the Flies the boys on the island prove that humans are innately evil through excessive control. At the very beginning of the book Jack tries to control his choir, making them hunters. Jack said to Ralph, “I’ll split up the choir-my hunters that it,“ (Golding 42). Right here Jack already tries to imply that his choir is more savage than the rest of the boys by calling them hunters.
Ralph represents the goodness left on the island, while Jacks worst got the best of him. He then becomes very violent “He's like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.”(Gift for the Darkness, p.138) Jack challenges Ralph whom he calls a coward; Ralph had insulted Jack's hunters as "boys with sticks”. He wants to turn everyone against Ralph so they join his tribe and become hunters leaving Jack in charge and chief of the island.
Some people, like Simon, understand this concept and he says: ‘Maybe there is a beast... maybe it’s only us.’ Other people, like Ralph, do not want to believe that there is a dark side to humanity and in Chapter 2 he constantly shouts: ‘but there isn’t a beast!’ Golding successfully gets across his message that there’s ‘darkness in man’s heart’ by the frightening way he describes several events in the book. The killing of the mother sow is an extremely shocking event in the novel. When it describes that ‘the great bladder of her belly was fringed with a row of piglets’ it shows how savage the boys have become and how much they have changed, especially Jack, because at the beginning of the novel he had difficulty killing the piglet because of ‘the enormity of the knife descending and cutting in to living flesh’ and now ‘practice had made Jack silent as the shadows.’ The quote ‘wedded to her in lust’ shows us that they specifically want the female pig and won’t rest until they have her. The scene is extremely graphic and the notion of what they are doing is terrifying. The fact that the pig went from being ‘in maternal bliss’ to ‘dim-eyed and grinning faintly’ is also terrifying, because they took something innocent and turned it into something wicked, which is essentially what happened to them.
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.
Sociology 111 Extra Credit The Confessions is a video that is about four U.S navy sailors that are arrested for the murder and rape of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Based on this video all men are also interrogated, have negative DNA results, and have no evidence regarding this crime scene. Daniel Williams, Joe dick, Derek trice and Eric Wilson were all charged with the murder of Michelle Moore-Bosko. Although all four men stories were completely different, they all signed a confession form out of fear of the death penalty and the jury didn’t believe them. So they were all found guilty.
Whenever the kid made the troubles, Sam always tried to control him. At the end of the story, Sam has to take the kid back and even pay money for the father, because of his greed and lack of research. And Bill is partner with Sam when they kidnap the kid, Johnny. Bill is the one who takes care of Johnny when Sam did another business. He doesn’t expect that Johnny is so naughty and obnoxious.
Jack and his “tribe” punished anyone who didn’t follow them. For instance, Piggy, Ralph and Samneric went to Jack’s area of the island to retrieve Piggy’s stolen glasses, however, Jack didn’t listen. Also, although Jack didn’t order Rojer, Rojer