Part B) he tries to eat his guests, not very nice, or hospitable. Page 1017 2. (Part A) The sirens lure men to their death by singing to them. Their songs are so beautiful that the men are unable to resist coming over to them. (Part B) The danger from the sirens is much greater than that from the lotus eaters.
In Lord of the Flies, Ralph becomes the leader of the boys. There is also an older boy named Jack who leads the hunters and often resists Ralph's authority. During an assembly Ralph tells Jack that he is breaking the rules, to which Jack responds "[w]ho cares"" (100). Ralph then exclaims that "the rules are the only thing we've got!" (100).
At this point in the novel, Jack develops resentment towards Ralph. He is exceedingly jealous of Ralph; he spends the rest of the novel nursing his wounded ego back to health. Jack does this by constantly diminishing Ralph’s authority in front of the group. The conflict on the island begins with Jack attempting to dominate the group rather than working with Ralph to benefit it. Furthermore, Jack has narcissistic traits because he behaves in an arrogant manner.
And he taxed people too much which would make the people rebel against him. I therefore believe that John shouldn’t have been king and wasn’t fit for the job of king. Also the people would have gone against the crown because of him. In this paragraph I aim to prove that King John maybe not a bad king as it seems because not all the primary evidence is reliable due to the fact that
What the conch symbolizes in the story leadership and order. To the boys the conch was everything, but there was a rule and Piggy made it; it was “You must have the conch to speak in the council.” When Ralph blew the conch it would make a beautiful sound and a very loud one at that. The boys would come and sit and talk that shows leadership. Later on the story Ralph and a boy argue throughout the story and couldn’t agree on a thing; there was a huge power struggle between them. The boys split up and it’s just Ralph, Piggy, and SamnEric so Ralph has lost his leadership through the whole pack of kids.
The boys don’t see it that way though; they think he’s a great Chief because he takes them hunting. “He’s a proper Chief, isn’t he?” “He’s going to take us hunting.” (Golding, 176) This proves that none of them have any common sense anymore, they don’t care about survival. All they care about is hunting. Jacks tribe having no order has 3 terrible outcomes, Piggy’s death, Simon’s death, and the attempted murder of Ralph. All of it is chaos.
Identically, Jack refuses to use the rule: those who have the conch may speak. Often when someone has the conch Jack will comment or start his own arguments. For example, when he interrupts Jack during his speech “Jack stood up, scowling in the gloom and held out his hands. “ I haven’t finished yet” “But you’ve talked and talked”, page 81. This shows that Jack has no respect for authority figures.
Jack the Tyrant In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack symbolizes control and power on the island. He clearly wants to be in control when he proclaim that he “Ought to be chief… because i can sing high C” (22), and then shows disappointed when Ralph is elected by his freckles disappearing “under the blush of mortification”(23). This symbolizes how he believed he should be chief because he can sing high C. A pointless reason but starts to show his thirst for power and his resentment of Ralph after Ralph was elected over him. Again he shows this wanting control over others when they caught the first pig, and he began to realize he had the “knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken
The barbaric life style that the boys decide to portrait leads them into chaos, envy, arguments, and murder threw out the novel. When the boys landed on the island they tried to stay civilized by trying to organize a civilized environment. Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell that they use to call everyone on the island together. The boys then have
Algernon resorts to comfort eating and Jack is angry accusing Algernon of heartless Bunburyism (although this is somewhat hypocritical as he has deceived Gwendolyn in the same way). However there is conflict in this scene symbolized by the fight for possession of the muffin dish. There are two codes of behavior which are breached by both men. As a host Jack is ungracious, trying to stop his guest from eating the muffins and insisting that he leaves. As a guest Algernon eats all the muffins too greedily.