These are all large themes in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. When a group of young boys crash into and uncharted island they are rebirthed like a flower because there is no society to tell them what to do so they must come up with their own rules. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the falling of a leader, as well as irony, demonstrates that losing hope of rescue can drive people to savagery. In William Goldings Lord of the Flies the antagonist Jack, once the hunter of the group, turns to savagery and takes most of the other boys with him. Jack and Ralph were arguing because Jack would go out hunting while the rest of the boys were making shelters. Jack says, “‘Next time! I’ve got to get a barb on this spear! We wounded a pig and …show more content…
Jack had come to the first meeting that Ralph summoned to talk about what the boys should do about being stuck on an island. Jack says, “We’ll have rules!” (Golding 33). This shows that Jack wanted to have a calm civilization where everyone would get along and abide the law. When he wanted to have rules, they made rules proving him to be a strong leader and advisor, it also displays how persuasive he is. Rodger had just come up to castle rock and was talking to the guards about what he had missed when he was gone. A guard says, “He’s going to beat Wilfred… I don’t know, he didn’t say. He just got angry and made us tie Wilfred up” (Golding 159). This shows that after Jack had broken away from civilization where he wasn’t in charge to a new tribe where he was the leader he does whatever he wants and mostly does savage things. When he beats the young boy Wilfred it displays to the extent he abuses his power but because all the boys are almost as savage as he is they don’t seem to mind. Jack abuses his power and drives all the boys to savagery proving that even leaders with the strongest wills can do terrible things when blinded by