These boys, Jack and Ralph, both fight for dominance during this novel, whilst grappling with their egos and desires. Ralph is the superior leader in, “Lord of the Flies,” due to his prioritizing the group’s welfare and emphasizing reason over primal instinct. Ralph's leadership prioritizes the group's welfare, he says “We've got to have special people for looking after the fire. Any day there may be a ship out there... ”(Golding 33)
During a time of war, a british plane carrying a group of schoolboys is shot down over the Pacific, killing all adults and leaving the group of boys stranded on an island. One of the two leaders of the group, Jack, is the perfect character to portray humanity changing from civilized to savage. Jack is power-hungry, violent, and savage. In the beginning of the book, Jack is innocent and carelessly follows the leader, Ralph.
If Jack and Ralph represent nation leaders in the Lord of the Flies, I believe that Ralph would be a better leader. A leader is someone who has the ability to take control and charge of a group. A leader is also there to guide, manage, and help a group in a dangerous situation. Ralph did all of those actions throughout the Lord of the Flies.
At the beginning of the story, Jack is civilized and wants to be rescued like the other boys. He is assigned to be the lead hunter, but when he sees his first pig, he cannot kill it. Eventually, he is a savage and he has no problem killing pigs and in some cases, other boys. “At once the crowd surged after him, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
Lord of the Flies Jack represents being power hungry and disobedient for the incorrect reasons In the book Lord of the flies, there are several things that connect the earth right now and human expertise. In the book most of the boys go through a phase that they never went through before, through out the book they're going through a "animal-like" phase that I feel the reader does not expect from them. I decided a decision} to concentrate on Jack because I believe that he was a lot more animal-like then the other boys because of that I think he extremely stands out because of his actions and feelings he made the other boys animal-like. I feel this is often necessary as a result of the influence he created on the other boys is quite like
Lastly, Jack is known as the rebel of the story who disagrees with the leaders, and is pure evil from middle to end. Although Jack is evil, his bad character trait ensures his survival and alliance with the boys. The first example of when Jack’s evilness is shown in the story is when Jack hunts the pig and puts its head on a stick, the line says “ Jack held the head up and jammed the soft throat down on the pointed end of the stick which pierced through into the mouth. He stood back and the head hung there, a little blood dribbling down the stick” ( Golding, 150). This shows Jack’s evilness because instead of fearing the beast he is offering him the head of the pig that he just brutally murdered.
1. Jack is unable to kill the pig because he is still bound by the concept of civilization and common morals, so he has not yet moved to the “dark side” yet. Also, he knows that if he kills the pig he will be crossing a line and knows he will not be able to turn back. This signifies how Jack I incapable of violence. Jack states how he is waiting for just the right time to kill the pig, but that is a lie and is scared to do it, it states, “They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Golding 33).
Ralph and Jack are two different people, trying to reach the same goal by having complete power on the island. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are in a plane crash, they land on an island, they have nothing, this puts a tremendous toll on the boys' behavior. Before the plane crash and during the first couple days on the island, Ralph shows a caring and compassionate side, but also knew how to keep most of the boys in control, while Jack displays anger and uses punishment to make sure the boys stay in line. Ralph and Jack never got along, fighting throughout the whole book for ultimate power. Jack becomes upset with Ralph for not letting him be the leader and starts to do many things that are unlike him, which leads
Throughout Lord of the Flies, Jack proves himself to be a very aggressive and forceful leader who always seems motivated by self-interest. From the beginning of the novel, Jack instills fear within the boys to maintain control. For example, during the scene in which the boys are to vote on a leader, Golding clearly coveys that although the boys do not really want to vote for Jack, but they reluctantly do so. “With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands. ‘Who wants me?’
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a Russian novelist and historian once said,”The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.” In William Golding’s novel Lord of the flies, Jack, the supposedly good former choirmaster and student leader, is a representative of evil and violence when tempted by savagery and greed. Jack has the major authority and develops a higher status compared to other characters in the novel. He is a born leader who carries out his concerns over various problems, however the abusive use of power leads him towards the evil path. Golding has effectively used figurative devices such as a beast metaphor, colour symbolism , controlling tone, imagery of Jack’s appearance and environment to demonstrate his desire of power and devolving character.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack, and Ralph are different leaders in many ways. To start, Ralph presents himself as a fair and democratic ruler in the novel. First, Ralph is fair and democratic when he becomes a leader by election. In the first chapter of the story, all of the boys stranded on the island decide that they are going to vote for one of the boys to be chief and
The changing relationship between Ralph and Jack, the protagonist and antagonist in Lord of the Flies is one where these two boys at first seem like allies but quickly diverge and distance themselves apart and soon become completely at odds with one another. Due to the different approaches they take in the leadership of a group of boys stranded on an uninhabited island, the group splits into two opposing and even warring factions, showing the severity of their antagonism. In the beginning, relations between Ralph and Jack are not as hostile. When they explore their island, they appear to act like friends, fooling around and casually playing.
Eventually, Jack got tired of Ralph’s authority and rebels and starts his own group. By the near end of the movie, Jack has everybody in his group but Piggy and Ralph. Jack’s group begin to act like savages not obeying the rules and torturing each other. They kill two of the boys, Simon and Piggy. After Jack kills Piggy, they start hunting Ralph.
”(pg.69) From this quote one can conclude that Jack has a want to be nice and civilized. One can get to this conclusion from the fact that at first Jack rejects, shudders, off this intense power from hunting but ultimately loses control over his adrenaline. Later on, Jack has enough of Ralph getting angry over Jack's obsession of hunting and starts a break off group who focus on hunting more than anything. “We hunt and feast and have fun.
In William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies, Jack a malicious leader, is competing with Ralph to obtain total control of the group. Jack’s behavior becomes more aggressive while living on the island. Jack’s deep desire for power overtakes his mind and ends up altering his identity. He develops from a skeptical choir boy to a fearless, confident savage.
