Jack, together with Maurice and Roger, attacked Ralph’s group and stole Piggy’s glasses in order to make fire. Piggy, enraged about what Jack’s tribe has done, went to the Castle Rock to confront him. Since he didn’t have his glasses, Piggy was nearly blind and didn’t see Roger pushing the boulder from the fort. It hit Piggy and pushed him over the cliff onto the rocks below. Along with Piggy’s death is the destruction of the conch.
Spill his blood!’ ” (187). Simon was in his thicket when he spotted the Lord of the Flies. As he was returning to the island, the boys saw Simon as they danced wildly, thought he was the beast and murdered him with their sharpened spears. Even Ralph had participated in this incident. Soon everyone decided to follow Jack as he had promised them meat and protection, but soon became a vicious leader.
However, his shipmates think the wind god has secretly given him gold and silver. They rip open the bag and release all the winds they need to complete their journey home. This shows temptation for the imaginary gold, and folly. They return to Aeolus, but he refusing to help someone so cursed by the Gods. Next they row to the land of the Laestrygonians, they seem kind and willing to help, but instead eat some of the men for dinner and sink many of their ships.
When the boys are dancing and chanting around the bonfire, they mistake Simon for the beast and brutally kill him with “no words…but the tearing of teeth and claws. In all the excitement at the bonfire, the boys show that they have become undomesticated since when they first got to the island. Their obsession with the beast has led to development of animal-like instincts, causing them to react in violent behavior in order to protect themselves. Lastly, the third death in the novel is heartless and intentional murder, proving that the boys have lost all sense of sympathy and have turned to killing to maintain power over each other. After Roger pushes Piggy down the mountain knocking Piggy to his death, Jack steps forward and begins “screaming wildly” and warns Ralph that if he doesn’t join his tribe, that “that’s what [he’ll] get”.
As time goes on the boys revert to animalistic behaviors, such as hunting with face paint, crawling on all-fours, and brutally murdering animals. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, natural instincts to revert to savagery overrules the instinct to start a civilization, which is ultimately When the novel first starts the boys attempt to start an organized civilization. Ralph takes control, calling the boys to a meeting with a
Lord of The Flies “There is a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand” - George R. R. Martin. In William Golding’s novel, The Lord of The Flies, a group of boys find themselves stranded on an island. As they fight for power and struggle to survive, they discover a resident evil in each individual which threatens to overtake the group as a whole. Golding represents this bestiality through symbols such as The Beast, The Lord of The Flies, and a big fire. Golding uses a beast that resonates in each boys head as a symbol for their growing insanity.
A quote that supports this is on page 181, “…the conch exploded into thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.” This quote supports on the destruction of the conch. This made civilization among the boys extinct and Ralph left with Jack’s mind to kill Ralph. Once Jack had some type of control, Jack provides attention and wants to have fun. Instead of listening to Ralph about building a shelter and being told what to do, Jack decides to tell the boys to come and hunt with him. Not only are they going to have something to eat but have fun and kill Simon.
(152) This is the chant that Jack had created after their first kill. This is also the chant the group was crying out when they killed Simon. As a result of Jack getting caught up in hunting, the sight of Simon crawling out of the bushes he orders everyone to attack and kill ‘the beast’. Jack illustrates that when humans get lost in an activity,
23) which foreshadows future acts of savagery and “all the same you need a army for hunting-hunting pigs” (pg.31) which shows an obsession with this primitive action. Throughout all the hunt Golding’s expresses Jacks thrill for the hunt couple examples are “The madness came into his eyes again I thought I might kill” (pg.51) “Jack found the throat and hot blood spouted over his hands…”(pg.149). and “the head is for the beast it’s a gift”(pg.151). As the hunts go on their behavior becomes more violent and vicious. The narrator seems to note the boys transformation by referring to them as savages and how the hide their shame “[they were] safe from shame or consciousness behind the mask of [their] paint”(pg.154).
Rainsford used a pit trap to get the dog, and he uses a knife trap to lacerate and kill Ivan. Now the readers are really in to the story asking themselves is Rainsford going to survive General Zaroff, or will General Zaroff kill Rainsford? To make the readers happy, Rainsford decided that “General Zaroff had never slept in a better bed.” That indicated that Rainsford had won the “most dangerous game” and killed General Zaroff. In Conclusion, the readers felt suspense when Rainsford fell off his boat, found general Zaroff’s home on Ship-Trap Island, and ironically beat General Zaroff in hunting. Those were all examples that proved that Richard Connell, Author of “The Most Dangerous Game” used suspense to develop his short story.