Prince Humperdinck tries to make himself seem like a brave hunter, but as the story goes on the reader begins to question the validity of this statement. He is deceiving, greedy, and dishonest. He is extremely afraid of being called a coward. Even though he is a talented hunter, he uses his training for his own good. He hunts in his zoo of death, and tries to murder his wife just so he can start a war.
There is tension that is built up during the survival of the boys on the island: tension between social responsibility and individual needs, tension between rational and emotional reactions and tension between mortality and immortality. These tensions contribute to the disintegration of order as the boys begin to lose control because Golding shows that the savagery inside them is instinct and everyone is born with evil inside them. Golding uses a variety of techniques to portray the disintegration of order. In the novel, he uses hunting and violence as one of the main themes to convey the boys as savages. There are six main hunts shown and as the hunting proceeds the boys lose their identity as the little children in England.
The beast is a huge element of fear in the novel. The reason the fear is so great is because the beast is an unknown creature in the beginning, never seen, just a fear that grows bigger. Like JK Rowling said in Philosopher's Stone, “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” This paranoia of the beast drives them to insanity, they have the constant feeling as if they are being hunted, like Jack who says: “If you’re hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if-” Jack flushed suddenly. “There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling, but-being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.” This quote proves that fear spreads quickly, from the littluns to the biguns, caused by the beast.
Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!” (pg 4) through this he shows that he does not want to partake in Gandalf’s adventure at first. A battle of good and evil is portrayed throughout this all story. Especially when Gollum and Bilbo have a riddle off. Gollum is a wicked creature that lives in darkness and brings everyone down.
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 might’ve seen us. We might’ve gone home--“ This was too bitter for piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss. He cried out, shrilly: “You and your blood Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might’ve gone home.” (70) The Beast The Beast in the book symbolizes “the evil in the boys/in humanity”.
Idea of the Beast -builds fear inside the boys -creates conflict in the community because Jack’s desire to hunt. Jack wants to catch the beast and win over all the boys on the island because it would show his control and leadership ability Another big factor of things falling apart is the 'Beast', which represents fear. The idea of the beast was first put forward near the beginning of chapter 2 when one of the little boys asks, "What are you going to do about the snake-thing [?]" to Ralph, who denies the existence, but just because you ignore or deny something doesn't mean it goes away. The fear grows and engulfs even the bigger boys; Jack says, "You can feel as though you're not hunting, but-being hunted."
Throughout this adventure Jack changes from a well mannered choir boy, who was scared to kill a pig, to a savage hunter who leads his band of hunters to kill everything in site. Jack was a load and strict choir leader and always seemed as if he would do anything to be leader, while Ralph was not severe or even very load, but he always wanted what was best for the group. Ralph uses the conch as a symbol of order and it is opposite to the pigs head (the lord of the flies) which attributes to the killing and sheer brutality of the hunters. Jack is the perfect example of a boy whose dark side took over when he was no longer bound down to a civil
Grendel had no hall, no lord, and he disobeyed the laws of warfare by attacking at night. For this, Grendel’s point of view is a little skewed for he has such a burning hatred for men that he murders and eats them. When hearing of Beowulf, he is the shining example of everything that Grendel hates. Over the course of the novel, the reader realizes how much Grendel acts like a human and how his train of thought is more rational than portrayed in Beowulf. This personification is shown throughout because of his complex thought patterns.
Another similarity is that Okonkwo shows anger through violent, stubborn, irrational behavior. So does Joe, who also can’t control his anger and his stubbornness when everyone in the town begs him to stop irrigating the land. Not only does he have anger, but he is also too impatient, when he accidently gunned the old man, and the pig. And in the novel Okonkwo rashly kills a messenger from the British district office. Okonkwo and Joe realize that none of town supports them and that they won’t save the village.