How Is Jack Inherently Evil In Lord Of The Flies

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of boys get stranded on an island with no adults in sight after getting into a plane crash. Imaginably, this would causes the boy's behavior to become out of control and reckless, Jacks in particular. In Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Jack is inherently evil. Throughout the book Jack has displayed harsh acts of violence, such as his abuse towards the other boys on the island, lack of care for the littluns, his aggression towards hunting, and his attempted murder of Ralph. Jack’s biggest target throughout the novel has been the littluns. Since they are so young, he knows how easily they would believe him and he uses that to his advantage. “Jack's ascendancy over the group begins when the children's

Jack has had a dislike for Piggy from the beginning of the novel and often spoke to him very harshly. In one instance toward the beginning of the novel, Jack had let the fire go out as a ship was going by and Piggy had addressed Jack with his mistake. “This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach” (Golding 71). Jack could not accept responsibility for his mistake, which caused him to resort to violence against Piggy. With his previous dislike for Piggy, he saw his chance to cause him pain and took

In one disturbing scene, Jack and a few other boys on the island went hunting for a sow that they could feast on. Jack, with the help of the other boys, ended up killing the sow they found in a very brutal manner. “Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her” (Golding 135). Jack having no empathy for the animal and feeling fulfilled after killing the sow so brutally is not a normal feeling that a normal human being would experience. Usually hunting will generate some remorse but Jack feels pride and accomplishment after killing the sow which are not normal feelings. Although Jack possesses aggression on his own involving hunting, there were factors that fueled it along the way. One of the first few times Jack hunted, he had nearly killed a piglet, but at the last second it had gotten away, leaving Jack frustrated and angry. “Jack, knife in hand, reflexively hesitating long enough on the downward stroke to allow a trapped piglet to escape. The civilized taboo against bloodletting remains shakily in place as the angry boy settles for slamming his knife into a tree trunk. "Next time," he cries. It is the exploration of Jack's "next time" that will occupy much of the remainder of Lord of the Flies” (Friedman). Jack’s main