William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, provides an incisive insight into human nature. The novel tells the fictional story of a group of young British boys that get stuck on an uninhabited island without any adults that would be an authoritative figure among them. Golding contends that human nature, when free from the constraints of society, draws people away from common sense or goodness and towards savagery. In addition, humans are motivated by fear which urges toward brutality and dominance over others, and humans have an instinct to follow others because of dependency. The use of symbolism and character development are various ways that Golding uses in Lord of the Flies to illustrate that all humans are inherently evil. The development of Jack’s character in Lord of the Flies is one of many things that …show more content…
Jack has a desire for power at the beginning of the novel and gets furious over the fact that he ends up not getting the role as chief. In the beginning, Jack maintained the moral sense and discipline that civilization had established in him. "We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages" (Golding 42), Jack said early in the book about establishing order among the group. He realizes that there is a need to have order, something that being in a society instilled in him. When he first encounters the pig, he is unsuccessful at killing it, it is the civilized Jack who is unable to bear the thought of harming the pig. He then devotes his time into hunting and trying to find and kill the pig, which changes the image of his character very much from the beginning, drifting into savagery as he finds pleasure in violence. Thomas Hobbes thought it was better to