Jack: the Dark Side of Human Nature
Jack is the character that represents violence in this book and shows the dark side of human nature and that everyone has some darkness inside of them, some just choose to let it out, like Jack, whilst some choose to suppress it, like Piggy, I will be looking at Jack’s character.
I believe that the boys see Jack at the beginning of the book as somebody who wants power and may be scared of him as he does manage to wield that power and they may possibly see him as somebody who has control over Ralph and may listen to Jack more because of this, I fell we see people preferring Jack over Ralph when they do not help him build shelters: “then wander off or go hunting”, i believe this is significant as it is one of the first instances of them not listening to Ralph and going with Jack hunting instead, what they find more fun, not what is more important for the group.
I think the boys start to see Jack in the middle and towards the end of the book as an all powerful person who is the greatest leader. They see him as the fun leader who lets them do what they want even when it may not be in the best interests of the group. I think because of this the boys treat him with respect and when he wants to do something they will do it: unlike with Ralph when he was trying to build the shelters.
I believe Jack
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I think this as, Jack has no signal fire just a cooking fire which satisfies his own needs to hunt not the groups need to get rescued. Like when Ralph says, “that is nothing more than a cooking fire”. This adheres to Jack’s need to kill and hunt pigs and not get rescued which benefits the entire group. This signifies this as to verify Jack’s compulsion to kill they need to eat the meat which the cooking fire allows, therefore making Jack wanting to hunt valid as they can now