Jack Merridew

The most civilized character in the Lord of the Flies is Piggy. Piggy is really fat, has asthma, and is very smart. He takes care of the little kids and makes sure that everyone has shelter. Throughout the book he is always concerned with the fire because he knows it will be the only way they can be rescued (p 139). He also tries to make sure everyone gets rescued and wanted everyone to stay alive as long as possible. In the end Ralph starts to act like Piggy. Ralph is strong and kind of a bully to Piggy at the beginning. He was the other civilized character. At the beginning, Ralph uses a conch shell to call a meeting of all the boys (p 17). He organizes what will be done after he is voted to be the chief (p 23). Ralph makes sure that everyone

Being on the island everyone is contsantly faced with the fear of the unknown the younger boys need someone to protect them from the fears on the island. Although nothing manages to scare the boys as much as the beastie does. When a little boy with a mullberry birthmark informs everyone that he has seen a beastie. The older boys emitiatly belive its his imagination but even later in the novel the boys start to question the exsitance of the beast. After the killing of simion, jack is belives ut was simon disguised as the beast, and that the beast is not dead. Jack brings up the topic about the beast at an assembly, and makes the little’uns fear the beastie even more. "Bollocks to the rules! We 're strong - we hunt! If there 's a beast, we 'll hunt it down! We 'll close in and beat and beat and beat-" (p.114) once again jack is sepaking of thr beast again, he is convincing the boys that there absolutely is a beast and that he can protect them by hunting it. Meanwhile piggy dose not belive there is a beast, jack continues to shove the fear of the beast down everyones throats and manipulating the boys so he can gain more power and control over the

Throughout history and literature, symbols have been used to represent the bigger picture or main ideas. This allows the reader to illustrate the symbol in their head and have a much better overall understanding of the book. A number of times during Golding’s Lord of the Flies, he uses symbols to illustrate the boys’ destruction and fall from order into savagery. The regression of the boys’ civilization is evident through Golding’s symbolic use of the conch shell, the signal fire and the beastie. All are critical for expressing Golding’s overall message.

George R.R. Martin once said, “There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.” William Golding demonstrates that every person has savagery inside of him in his novel, Lord of the Flies. In this novel, Golding shows us that civilization is lost and savagery begins when the urge to kill takes hold of us. William Golding’s character development of Jack and motif of weapons help develop his point.

Golding presents the protagonist, Ralph, who is decently intelligent and completely civilized, to demonstrate how once individuals are pulled away from civilization, the dark forces within them will arise and change how they are for the time being. Ralph is first introduced as the fair boy who is a natural born leader. He applies Piggy’s intelligence to think of a way to summon the other survivors on the island. Ralph follows through with Piggy’s idea and uses the conch which emits a loud sound that can be hear through the island. The sound eventually lures the group of boys towards them. His leader instincts are best portrayed when he’s able to side with Jack after offering to share his power: “The suffusion drained away from Jack’s face. Ralph waved again for silence. ‘Jack’s in charge of the choir. They can be – what do you want them to be?’ ‘Hunters.’ Jack and Ralph smiled at each other with shy liking. The rest began to talk eagerly.” He does this after taking into account the needs and desires of the others, like a true leader. Although Ralph was

Throughout Lord of the Flies, Jack proves himself to be a very aggressive and forceful leader who always seems motivated by self-interest. From the beginning of the novel, Jack instills fear within the boys to maintain control. For example, during the scene in which the boys are to vote on a leader, Golding clearly coveys that although the boys do not really want to vote for Jack, but they reluctantly do so. “With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands. ‘Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy’s was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air” (23). Another defining moment of Jack Merridew is when he apologizes to Ralph for letting the fire go out. “‘I’m sorry. About the fire, I mean.

They have lost all sight, and completely forgot that they’re trying to be rescued. Unsurprisingly, they end up killing another boy. This mostly affects Jack and his group, because they are focused on hunting and partying. Throughout the entire book, Jack is too focused on killing and controlling the others that he absolutely forgets about wanting to be rescued. Because of this, the boys have become bloodthirsty savages, they all chant, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!" (152). In a flurry of violence, the boys mistake Simon for a beast and kill him. Simon was recently hallucinating and stumbles into the circle of savages. They chant around him and believe that he is a ‘beast’. After this many of the boys including Jack, fail to recognize that they murdered Simon. The only sensible boys are Ralph and Piggy. Inevitably, Roger is controlled by his wraith, described as ‘delirious abandonment’. He springs Jack’s trap, a boulder, killing Piggy. "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist" (181). Roger could not resist the urge to launch the boulder down the hill and kill yet another boy. The boys have lost all control of their actions, becoming even more uncouth and

Jack’s desire to hunt and kill lead to Simon's death. Simon discovers there is no beast on the island, because he realizes they assumed the pilot with his parachute as the beast. Simon decides to inform the other boys; meanwhile Jack and his crew members are having a feast. Ralph and Piggy came to the feast, so Ralph can have at least have a little control over the boys. Additionally, they start to dance and chant around the fire “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood"(152). Because it dark and the boys did not stop chanting, the boys think Simon is the beast. Therefore, Simon is killed in the feast, and the boys do not feel guilty about their actions. Roger is one of many boys who is influenced by Jack’s actions. Jack and a few of his crew members steal Piggy’s glasses to make fire. When Ralph and Piggy come to retrieve them, Ralph observes“High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever”(180). Roger pushes a boulder where Piggy was standing; subsequently Piggy is killed. Jack’s obsession with hunting and killing lead to the separation of the boys, additionally Jack’s actions influenced other boys to act like him.

H.P. Lovecraft once said, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” (“Fear”). Fear is a major theme in Lord of the Flies. In the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, a group of British schoolboys are on an island due to their plane getting shot down. There are no adults with these boys, so they have to figure out a way to live and work together cooperatively. At the beginning of the novel things are going well, and the boys appoint a leader and assign different jobs to groups of people. However, as the story develops, things take a turn for the worst. Since the boys are not familiar with the island, it makes them imagine things that create fear inside of them. This fear makes them

Golding portrays the boys on the island turning the necessities they need for survival into symbols representing the sinful nature of humans. Throughout the book there is only one female character, and even then she is violated in the most brutal way. Roger and Jack find the only female, a nursing sow, during a pig hunt and decided to stalk her down to hunt and kill.

Without any grown-ups around, the boys are left to battle for and represent themselves. The young men utilize a conch shell as a talking stick, and Ralph, one of the more established young men, gets to be "chief." And then trouble starts. They 're anxious about a "monster" some place on the island, and afterward they choose to make a sign flame using the glasses of a kid named Piggy as opposed to keeping up the flame. The longer they 're on the island, the more savage they become. During that time, another key character Simon, who is wise and philosophical, joins Ralph to help make covers for shelter. The young men who are supposed to tend the flame skip out on their obligations to execute a pig. The violence of the chase is all

Everyone has at least one fear. After all, humans fear the unknown. Getting stuck on an island with a creature that isn’t clearly identified as something you know of, would probably be very scary. The beast was an unknown for the boys stuck on the island. At the time, they thought it was a wild creature, native to the island, but they soon figured out what the creature was the hard way. In The Lord of The Flies, the beast symbolizes fear to the boys, war in between them and human savagery. The unknown creature conveyed many personalities from the young survivors.

When people are born, they cannot be good or evil; however, without the lessons and rules taught by society, humans are inclined towards greed and savagery. William Goulding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies,” explores ideas regarding the inherent nature of human beings. Initially, Ralph and the other boys desperately try to maintain law and order, but since they were taken away from the world of adults and given freedom to do as they please, most of them succumb to uncivilized impulses. For example, many of the boys found their power to destroy and kill thrilling, despite this going against their morals. When Jack and his hunters kill a pig for their first time they exclaim “look! We’ve killed a pig,” (76) with pride. The main reason why Jack and his hunters are so overjoyed is

Raskolnikov has a theory, that getting rid of pests in his society he would be making it better. He deemed Ivanovna, his pawnbroker, as some vermin that needed to be eliminated and thought of her murder as being a favor to society. He is in a bar shortly before his crime, he feels hesitant but then overhears a conversation that further convinces him of his theory, the conversation is between two men that said:

It is often easy to overlook the severity of the impact that society has on mans’ moral conscience. Societal standards are so thoroughly ingrained in the progression of civilization that humans instinctively feel as though they are good by nature because they make seemingly moral decisions, yet they do not realize that their choices derive from the influence of society’s expectations more so than their own virtue. Since people are born into civilization, they behave accordingly throughout the entirety of their lives to what authoritative figures and society as a whole perceive as right and wrong; thus, their character and morality are shaped by society. Therefore, when you strip man of civilized ways and isolate him from society, he will instinctively