Capacity For Dominance In Lord Of The Flies

The great Desmond Tutu once said, “ As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities”. This common thought about human beings having the capacity for evil has been a long thought testimony. William Golding in his 1954 novel Lord of the Flies manifests this idea flawlessly, using boys stranded on a Pacific island after a plane crashes. Golding in his novel indicates that all human beings have a natural capacity for brutality and evil.
Golding demonstrates that all human beings have a natural capacity for brutality and evil through the brutal murdering of pigs throughout the book. Right after Jack called for a re-vote for chief and no one voted for Jack to become leader

As Jack has started his tribe taking all of the boys with him besides Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric he begins to realize he can’t keep going as the chief of a tribe with fire. Jack and a few other boys realize Piggy’s glasses are the only way to keep going with the life brought by the fire they know they must steal them. They had taken some of the fire Ralph had going but that wouldn’t last forever so Jack and two others go attack Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric in the night taking Piggy's glasses. As Ralph looks out he knows it’s Jack who did it and he thinks “He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses” (Golding 168). All before the crash Jack and his main acquaintances were a part of a boy's choir which was proper and far from anything evil or savage. But now this is completely flipped as Jack and his choir have become more savage and evil mostly due to the rivalry between Jack and Ralph for leadership which has led Jack to this road of doing anything to become the leader and dominating Ralph. This is conveyed here with Ralph even stating Jack was the real chief now in “truth” and stealing the life start from them with Piggy's “glasses” just because he wanted to be on top instead of working with them. Equally as important as this citation

During this hunt, Ralph is expecting no trouble with the boys because he had told Samneric where he was going to hide so they could try and refrain from going towards him. Ralph is finally somewhat relieved to see all the boys start to run completely away from their camp where Ralph was strategically placed to trick them into going far away. But as Ralph starts to settle the relief leaves him as he hears outside the bush “‘If you’re fooling us-’ Immediately after this, there came a gasp, and a squeal of pain. Ralph crouched instinctively. One of the twins was there, outside the thicket, with Jack and Roger. ‘You’re sure he meant in there?’ The twin waned faintly and then squealed again. ‘He meant he’d hide in there?’ ‘Yes-Yes-oh-!’” (Golding 192). The situation one of the twins is being put into is very bad with Roger causing the twin “pain” and hurting him just to find Ralph who wasn’t doing anything wrong in the first place. So especially Roger and also Jack who at the beginning of the book were respectful for the most part and just hunted for the meat and tried to be somewhat good to everyone to complete the other way by hurting one of the twins to try and get out Ralphs locations to hurt and kill him while making the boy “squeal” in the progress. In conclusion, this proves how they have the capacity for cruelty because they are physically hurting this boy to get