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Jack's Transformation In Lord Of The Flies

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The break down of civilization often starts with the obsession of power and maintaining authority. Jack is seen as an antagonist in the Lord of the Flies and started out in the beginning of the book as an innocent, civilized choir boy. This allowed him to accept and follow certain rules Ralph ordered. But later on when the boys were getting adapted to the forest and obtaining savage behavior, Jack started to have an obsessive feeling towards certain situations which involved him to show his skill and bravery. One stage was during the Pig Hunting. In the fourth chapter, Jack was unable to catch and kill a pig and later obsesses to hunt for one to not seem weak in front of the boys. “Jack tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill
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