How Does Jack Use Torture In Lord Of The Flies

If children are supervised in their rise into authority then kids will be gentler, kinder, and more understanding of one another. However, if supervision is not present, and children are given unsupervised power and control, then inevitably one person will stand up alone among the ranks and will do just about anything to get into power and stay there. In Lord of the Flies, Jack inflicts fear and pain upon those around him. At first, he is craving the power that the name, “chief” brings. Once Jack receives this honor his tyrannical reign begins, it gets to the point at the end of the novel where, torture is not only, not taboo, but is enjoyed by all. This is present in Jack’s need to torture for power as he did with Wilfred, torture for information

The night before the hunt for Ralph began, Ralph approached Samneric to determine the full extent of their loyalty to Jack and the savages. He was met with the harsh reality that they were savages, he still told them that he would be hiding in the thicket during the hunt for him the following morning. That morning as Ralph hid in the thicket he began to hear voices. “Roger spoke. ‘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.” (Golding 192). This goes to show that Jack has again resorted to abuse and torture to get what he wants, as he had no qualms with the pain he was inflicting upon a child. This proves that Jack enjoys it as it gets him what he wants, in this case, it was the location where Ralph was hiding. Golding, therefore, implies that when fear is a means of control, someone will take hold of it and use it to control those around them, this is evident in the way Jack uses terror in his methods of getting what he

In the Milgram shock experiment, participants were told to shock a “tester” when they got a wrong answer. This was staged so that the tester would almost always get the wrong answer. The goal was to see how far a participant was willing to increase the shock strength when presented with an order. According to Khan Academy “Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work became patently clear, and they were asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority” (Khan Academy). The article also states, “When the results of the study came out, they were actually really disturbing because 65% of participants shocked all the way” (Khan Academy). This shows that when a person is commanded by an authoritative person, most will be unable to resist the commands, regardless of moral constraints. Just as Jack ruled his savages with an iron fist in the Lord of the Flies. Participants in the Milgram shock experiment were commanded by a person of authority. In both scenarios, followers were unable to resist the command of