“Lord of the Flies,” the Nobel Prize for Literature laureate William Golding masterpiece. The story is about the Third World War, the aircraft flew south from England and the airplane was crashed, landing on an uninhabited island. A group of children not accompanied by adults, only a small group of age-matched partners, beach and the island's creatures. In many children must have a leader, but at a plenary meeting, Ralph decided, who holds conch, who will have right to speak. So we ordered in accordance with the assignment to implement, and some people go in search of food, some people go to pick up twigs ignited by fireworks when the signal for help, there are those who build houses. Such laws dull days give some children headed to Jack …show more content…
He always thought that only they maintain a fire on the island, the smoke will rise into the sky let through the island vessels or plane to learn about their plight, so they have will be rescued. Ralph handheld conch become the sole and voice communication tool. But the power he possesses but very fragile, vulnerable to difficult to maintain a survival fire. A 12-year-old child, and we should have a naive and childlike, but he lost. “He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.”(Page10) He thinks he already is not that children with childhood, he has 12 years old, he is old, he lost his innocence of the others …show more content…
At first, Jack very happy without adult control, and to a free uninhabited island, he wants to have everything in power. Because in the previous life, he had been poetry class leader, he has a strong desire for power. In an environment where no adults, children like mad cow, want out of the fence run wild. When Ralph convenes a meeting when the owner decided to let Ralph leader of the uninhabited island, Jack is very angry, he thinks his ability and he should not be regulated over Ralph. Although he is not satisfied everyone such a decision, but he sometimes cannot deprive Ralph rights. He also is a simple, fear to the future and the unknown, but when he learned to hunt, he changed. When he first met the pig, he is afraid that. “ ‘I was choosing a place,’ said Jack. ‘ I was just waiting for a moment to decided where to stab him.”(Page31) This sentence was confirmed Jack first met piglet he was afraid to kill him, which is his own heart to find an explanation. But Jack soon obsessed with hunting and concentrate on the task.“Jack stood there, streaming with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day’s hunting.”(Page 41) From the start, Jack is full of interest for hunting and he learned to hunt in a short time and his desire to kill the pig and has become the new leader. In this slowly changing, Jack from an innocent child into a hunter and inner desire blood barbarian. Jack think: hunting can eat
Soon after organizing statuses and the children, Jack states that he and his peers in the choir will hunt for food. Since Jack has obtained the status of the chief and a hunter, he starts to undergo some character building changes. Further in the story Jack and his hunters transform into bloodthirsty savages who hunt for the thrill of slaughter. This all began with the death of a pig, the thrill of the hunt, and the murder of a fellow survivor.
What really turns Jack into a fear-ruling tyrant is pig-hunting. Although he just wanted meat at first (he does want meat later too), it turned into an obsession of killing life. The thrill of killing pigs is irresistible to Jack, and he starts not to care about rescue any longer. Jack’s thrill of killing was no longer enough though; he has to make his prey suffer. The obsession of torture is best illustrated during the killing of the sow.
Beginning his new job as a hunter Jack was unable to kill a pig because of the thoughts that ran through his mind. “‘Why didn’t you-?’ They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Page 31). As a result
While the hunters and rest of the boys were doing various activities, Jack wanted to go off into the forest and hunt a pig by himself. Though they would eat the meat, Jack viewed hunting as a sport and display of power. " Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife." (Goulding 164). Robert volunteered to act as the pig from their hunt as the boys told and demonstrated their parts of the story.
This also suggests to us that jack is either about to race someone or go after something. This affects us as readers, because based on what we read so far about Jack trying to catch a pig but to no avail, we can assume here that Jack is really determined to catch a
We see another example of this when Jack is still on his same hunt when he hears noises coming from all around in the forest. " Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Page (51). The way that Jack is described as an "ape-like" thing shows that Jack is becoming less of a hunter and more like a wild animal that is hunting for its next
Jack brainwashes the boys into thinking that hunting and killing are the most important priorities in their society. Eventually, the boys become crazed and obsessed with this idea. After the boys kill a pig or become excited, they begin to chant “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood!”
He goes to share his hunting story to Ralph and a boy named Piggy. On page 69, the narrator shares, “I cut the pig’s throat,’ said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it.” This quotation shows us that civilization is lost when the urge to kill takes over because it shows the stage where Jack is proudly killing animals, but still feeling a little bit uncomfortable with it. In this example, Jack proudly shares that he has killed, but still twitches after saying he did. Jack is still hanging onto the little bit of civilization that is left on their island.
This quote highlights this very clearly: “They all know why he hadn’t; because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.” (Golding 41). This quote refers to Jack's struggle to kill the pig. Jack cannot handle the very gruesome and violent image that will come out of killing the pig. This creates a problem for the boys.
He is starting to lose control over what he does, but is instead under the influence of what he is creating. Jack no longer feels the need to be self-conscious or full of shame because it is not him that is acting out of control, but another thing that is making him do it. Jack is also mostly naked like a true hunter from the Before Christ era. This mask taking over his body is a giant step towards Jack’s id asserting dominance in his head. Jack, after returning with his hunters, gives news to an angry Ralph that he has killed his first pig.
When Jack wanted hunt, he was worried that no one thought he could, that people thought that he was weak. He pushed himself to kill the pig and became obsessed. Jack was obsessed with the power it made him feel and the power that he thought he inherited with the group. When Jack pauses the first time they went hunting, it's proof that he couldn’t kill at first, he had to become “zoned” in and disassociate himself with the actual hunting before he could make his first kill. Once he overcame his fear of killing his humanity, he was able to not only kill pigs, but also kill people, and be okay with it.
Jack lost his sanity and civility and this changed him in more ways than imaginable. Jack was a natural leader when the boys first came onto the island, but as time continued he became a horrible dictator. On the first day on the island, Ralph and Jack competed for chief of the island. Ralph won. Jack was unhappy with this result, but it didn’t yet throw him into a spiral of craze and anger.
Still being a teen, Jack fails at this obstacle of change during his first attempt as he can’t deal with the killing of a living organism after first arriving. Jack is still very connected to his identity as a civil individual and therefore struggles when killing the pig since he is forced to change, express leadership and be productive, however isn’t able to kill it as “There came a pause… only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be... Jack’s face was white under the freckles… the unbearable blood.” (Golding, 31). Thus, witnessing failure in the beginning of novel as he is gaining experience from a new life where civility is ignored and savagery is widely required, in order to be productive, gain authority and survive.
These impulses, often sexual, seek to provide pleasure without regard to the cost” (Henningfeld). Jack continuously exhibits such impulses in addition to openly violent ones throughout the novel. At the conclusion of the very first chapter of the novel, he foreshadows his sadistic tendencies when he very nearly kills a pig. Later, he is shown acclimating to his environment (i.e. the forest) and refining his hunting abilities. All of these events lead up to Jack’s eventual split from Ralph’s rule and his complete succumbing to his negative impulses.
A plane was shot down, and it crashed on an uninhabited tropical island. The survivors, all schoolboys, were scattered around until the loud, deep blasts from a conch called them together. Led by Ralph, whom they later voted as chief (unanimously because he had the conch), they formed an assembly and discussed on what to do in the island, how to survive and get rescued. But “the delight of a realized ambition” overcame them—the freedom of having “no grownups” around. This sudden liberation from adult supervision made it difficult for their chief to manage the group, and even himself.