In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a group of young boys find themselves on a small, tropical island forced to find food and create shelter. The boys have difficulty creating their own civilization through the little necessities the island has to offer them. They all arrive with a plan to create shelter, follow rules, and look out for each other on the island, but their plan soon turns on them when the two main characters Ralph and Jack start to battle each other on who would be the better leader of the group. The destitute island changes the character Jack to be overbearing and dominant over the other boys because of his strength and love for hunting. Jack’s leadership becomes cruel and harsh when he realizes he loves power.
When Jack arrives on the island, he leads the choir boys and wants to look out for the whole group in order to get rescued. Jack knows that the only way to survive on the island is to follow rules, and stick together as a group. “‘I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re
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Jack is fundamentally a good person, but the island changes him to be a child dictator of the other boys because of lack of necessities needed to withhold a typical and common society. The author William Golding, is getting across that in most typical societies, the leader who gets everyone’s attention, and who has the most wanted essentials; in Jack’s case weapons, meat, and protection from “the beast”, will be the most wanted as a leader. The author is also implying that people are not fundamentally good or evil, but something has to drive them to end up changing themselves; like Jack changing because of realizing that having power over the other boys is exciting. Jack is not evil when he arrives on the island, but having cruel power and control over the other boys for his own selfish gain, shows how evilness takes over