Savagery Creates Beasts Jack became a savage, murderer and dictator within the short span of time he was on the island. Jack has changed greatly, over the course of William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies. Crashing onto an island without adults and having to survive put a strain on all of the boys, but Jack’s personality altered the most due to this experience. He went from living as an ambitious choirboy to being a vicious, brutal, beast. He ruined the childhood of many boys, abused people, and went crazy. Many people and experiences changed Jack on the island, and Jack changed many people. Mostly, Jack created the beast that everyone feared, which was themselves, due to savagery. Jack lost his sanity and civility, which changed him in more ways than imaginable. Jack was …show more content…
Turning into a savage was one of the most significant reasons that caused this change. Jack became obsessed with hunting, and that was all he ever did. He lost a sense of reality and was focused on hunting and only hunting. He was violent and merciless when he killed, and looked at hunting as a hobby as opposed to a necessity. He lost his civility and turned into an animal, which caused him to become a savage. Likewise, Ralph being chief and not Jack turned Jack power crazy. Jack wanted to be the leader from the start but wasn’t elected. This threw him into a desire for power. Golding conveys Jack’s disappointment with not becoming chief, “The freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification,” (pg. 23). Once Jack was fed up with not having power, he started his own tribe and made it wildly different, because he wanted people to follow him. Once he got the power, he became this brutal and abusive leader because he was so deprived of power previously. He beat people because it elevated his power and because he could. Multiple things made Jack change, but greatest were savagery overtaking him and the need for