Throughout Lord of The Flies, written by William Golding, a group of young boys who crash land on the island start off as innocent and peaceful people, some even Catholics. But as everyone's inner demons arose, all hope for civilization was lost and the boys descended into chaos. With this chaos came their loss of morals, values, and laws. Examples of these were when Jack disobeyed Ralph's rules, when Simon was brutally stabbed to death by Jack's group and how the story portrays Jack as starting from a Catholic choir boy to turning into the "devil" of the island. Starting with the loss of laws, at first Ralph was elected leader because he was seen as the most fit and strongest compared to everyone else. But this quickly created more problems …show more content…
They started with the mindset that they grew up with from their parents and teachers which were mostly positive teachings. But as the boys slowly started to lose their grip on society they started to do very bad things. Jack's group was especially worse because they they had a leader who taught them evil things such as killing, revenge, no mercy, etc. He also acted like a dictator which turned all of his people into what he called "minions". "A great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted garlanded, sat there like an idol... power lay in the brown swell of his forearms: Authority sat on his shoulder like an ape... Jack turned his mask down to the seated boys and pointed at them with his spear." (Golding 149-150) This quote shows how everyone in his group views him as a "God" and does anything he says because they are too afraid to have their own opinion. "The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leaped on the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws."(Golding 153) This quote shows the amount of fear in the boys that anything they see can be misinterpreted for the beast. Also, Jack orders them to attack it which shows how they have literally become robots because all they do is take orders and kill without thinking