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.
In William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack represents the savagery and viciousness within every human. Throughout the novel Jack becomes more and more vicious towards the boys, and it all started with hunting. When Jack couldn’t kill his first pig he became obsessed with hunting wich drove him a bit mad, causing him to become more vicious. Vicious is defined as deliberately cruel or violent. Jack can’t control his emotions and when he’s angry, he becomes quite vicious towards the other boys.
Jack’s cruel nature starts to show as he begins to lose control of his temper along with him being pretentious: “ ‘I cut the pig’s throat,’ Jack said, proudly … ‘There was lashings of blood,’ said Jack, laughing” (Golding 69). Although Jack is feeling proud of himself, there are still some qualities in need of assessment. For one, Jack is one of the only children on the island that would do that. Others may have killed the pig but Jack was vicious enough to cut the pig’s throat. This explains that Jack had the guts to murder an animal, which also implies that he is just a little heartless.
Another example of this behavior is when Jack says, “Kill the pig”. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (Golding 69). Meaning that Jack wants to kill a pig and skin it so they can eat it. This shows that Jack is very violent now, and he wants to destroy the animals on the island ruthlessly.
Is Jack the next Hitler, does he grow in both power and cruelty as Hitler once has? Jack was called out as leader of the savages and he quickly gained control over them and power of their will. Jack and the savages did several actions of murder, and tortured many throughout the entire story of the book. Jack may also resemble Hitler when Jack had lead his boys in the hot weather wearing all black cloak and letting the boys suffocate and dehydrate, to the point where Simon had fainted from the heat. In this essay, Jack will be proven to show a resemblance of Hitler through evidence, speculations, and allusions to how he compares to Hitler.
Golding’s Use of Religious Allegories “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him” (Matthew 12:33-35).
"(Lord of the Flies 230) Jack had inherited all the wretchedness of the adult world and he displayed them freely. When he found that he could act at will, without being challenged nor cautioned by a grown-up hand he unashamedly turned himself and his choir boys into savages and openly indulged in hunting and murdering, not only animals, but even fellow human beings. He thirsted for blood and lusted all the while for power and position.
The painted boys moved around Samneric”(Golding 178). He tells the boys to enslave Samneric, and they do as he says. Jack says “grab them” and they “moved around Samneric” showing that he is ordering them to do what he wants. Jack very clearly parallels to Hitler’s ways of controlling his army because he “invaded” other countries to enslave their “inferior population”. In addition to that, Hitler also became accustomed to killing people, and it almost was systematic.
The Holocaust was run by a name named Adolf Hitler and killed many people. This relates to the book because it was run by Hitler and he pretty much ordered people to kill people. Both Hitler and Jack have the same ideas which is to control the area and people, and soon start to kill. It is clear to that jack was an illusion to Hitler based on the fact that he wants to control the group of kids, he makes fun of piggy because he is fat and not perfect, and lastly he starts killing the group of
He had acted very barbaric, bloodthirsty, and manipulative throughout the novel. One of his main characteristics was acting barbaric. This was displayed a lot throughout the novel. Jack acted barbaric as a way to gain control over his people.
English coursework An investigation into the use of narrative techniques to explore political controversy in William Goldings Lord of the flies and Donald Trump’s 2018 school shootings speech. Introduction and aims Nobel Prize-winner William Golding’s Lord of the flies was first published in 1954 and was written shortly after World War 2 ended. At first it was very poorly received selling fewer than three thousand copies in the first year but then went on to become a best seller due to its exploration of the idea of human evil based on Golding’s and the world’s experience with the real-life violence and brutality of World War II.
Golding says “The boys broke into shrill, exciting cheering” (41) in the beginning of the novel, then at the end of the novel says, “A great clamor rose among the savages” (164). William Golding who wrote The Lord of the Flies changes his word choice from “boys” to “savages” to emphasize the fact that the boys change into savage creatures. Three symbols represent civilization and change into chaos over the course of the novel. The three symbols representing change are Piggy’s glasses, The fire, and the conch. These figures demonstrate the important theme that the calm civilization will soon break out into disorder.
The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western blocks and the communist countries of Eastern blocks. The west was, led by the United States and Eastern Europe was, led by the Soviet Union. These two countries became, known as superpowers. Although the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other, they fought indirectly in proxy wars, the arms race, and the space race (Nelson, 2018). As Nelson (2018) stated, the Cold War began not too long after World War II ended in 1945.
Lord of the Allegory The novel Lord of the Flies is described as an allegory novel (Carter). An allegory is a text which contains many things which are symbols and have a deeper meaning. Some examples of items in the novel that represent a deeper meaning include the conch shell which represents law and order, the beast which represents the savage instinct within humans and the pig hunts which represent the need for power.
During William Golding’s time, World War II was coming to an end after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Golding, horrified by “mankind’s essential illness” and capacity for evil, wrote the novel Lord of the Flies to depict how the struggle to survive can birth the beast in society, which, unfortunately, can cause the destruction of civilization. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses political allegory to illustrate how power dynamics change when people revert to a primal id state. To start off, Golding uses a conch to symbolize democracy.
