Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

things and away from painful things.” This represents Jack because he focuses on hunting, or fulfilling his own pleasures. His main priority is hunting, and the pleasure that he cleary gets from killing the pig. “Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife...Then Jack found the throat and the hot blood spouted all over his hands.” (Golding 135) This scene best shows how the Id unconsciously guides our minds to please its desires. Here it presents how Jack never stops to fulfill what he thinks his needs are. Freud also talks about

William Golding uses the character of Jack to represent the idea of human beings use reason to control their primal instincts but may become addicted to the sense of empowerment through violence/when civilising rules are absent, individuals may regress into savagery. Through his portrayal of this character, he demonstrates that through Jack’s acts of aggression, he is portraying traits and attributes of insanity as he descends into savagery, to which he accepts and abides by. This alludes to Golding’s post WWII context when Jack’s humanity hindered his chances of killing the pig, which in turn affected his opportunity to demonstrate his superiority to the group, over the weak and vulnerable. This intensified his urge, the urge to quench his

As any child would, the boys began to fear the idea of sharing the island with a beast. Simon talks about how "they talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others. As if... the beastie... was real." In an attempt to ease the boys' fear, Jack tempts them by calling the hunt for the beast a "real hunt." While Jack admits to being scared, he still wants to hunt down the beast and be the one to control it or kill it. Piggy, the younger more anxious boy, questions Jack, "Couldn’t we - kind of – stay here? Maybe the beast won't come near us." The boys were all terrified of the idea of having to face their

In the novel, Jack and his tribe of hunters represent the ID of the psyche. The ID refers to the part of the mind that deals with uncoordinated, instinctual needs. Meaning, Jack and his tribe adhere to solely their primal desires. This can be seen as dissent from society; that will ultimately end in chaos and destruction. This instinctual nature begins to show in chapter eight. After being humiliated at a group meeting Jack decides to break off from "society" and to go off on his own, "I 'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" (Golding, 126). At this point the ID is not fully displayed but key characteristics of the idea are shown, mainly his reckless need for power and savagery.

The boy’s psychological fears terrorize them, causing them to become violent to each other. When the plane crashes, it is implied that for the first time in their lives, the boys are alone and afraid. They do not understand the internal fear and they project it into a physical fear, the beast. This is vocalised early on as Piggy translates for a littlun,”’ Now he says it was a beastie.’ ‘Beastie?’ ‘ A snake-thing. Ever so big.He saw it” (34). This idea becomes rooted into the other boys and they develop a built-up fear of this ‘beast’ that takes on multiple figures as the novel progresses. Consequently, causing a threat to their own survival as they murder Simon thinking he was the so called ‘beast’. Golding writes, “ At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There was no words, and no movements but the

“They don’t smell me. They see me, I think.” (Golding 88). This shows Jack’s obsession with hunting and even going as far as masking his face to camouflage with the environment. Moreover it shows a good representation of humans adaptive to their environment, both physically and psychologically.

of meat, and flings it down at Simon’s feet” (74). This further proves that Jack is considerate to

As Jack faces the challenge of finding meat he becomes desensitised to killing and blood revealing his animal-like nature. An example is after he kills a pig and rubs the blood on Maurice’s cheek

Jack’s yearning for pig hunting is created by the beast. Jack reassures the group, “‘Ralph’s right of course. There isn’t a snake-thing. But if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it’” (Golding 36). Jack, being his aggressive and intimidating self, wants to be a hunter. He also votes the choir boys to be hunters along side him. The beast gives Jack something to hunt and provides him with a new challenge but his main priority is providing the tribe with the meat that they want. Soon, his only priority is hunting and he feels that nothing is more important. When Jack effectively kills a pig, he feels proud and accomplished. His successful hunts inspire the “dances” and “games” that he creates, which further increase his desire for hunting and violence.

(165) Simon had crawled out of the bushes on all fours with a face full of blood, after passing out earlier. The hunters were all alarmed by Simon’s appearance and instantly thought he was the beast, and they treated him as if he were and killed him. Once the boys had realized it was Simon they did not at all care and blamed Simon for his own death. Later on when Ralph had no one else left with him, Jack’s group hunted him as if he were a pig.

(The beast/ The Lord of the Flies) “Then he backed away, keeping his face to the skull that lay grinning at the sky.” (Golding 185)

How do you think think the state of the world would be if there were no rules? In Lord of the Flies, William Golding attempts to show what that would look like and why there needs to be rules and order. Golding shows this by putting young boys on an island which was out of society that got to the point where there was no rules which eventually led to chaos and destruction. This mayhem could have been prevented if rules and order were properly established and enforced by an authority figure. The events in Lord of the Flies show that humans need rules for a society to properly function because without rules, the state of the world would be chaotic.

At the beginning of the book, the character Jack was introduced as a strong but cruel leader, wanting all the authority and power. “‘I ought to be chief,’ said Jack with simple arrogance” (Golding 22). He showed no true compassion towards the others, and demanded to be Chief. He progressively became the most savage out of all the boys and the leader of the hunters. Even in the beginning, he was more savage than the other boys, encouraging killing and cruelty. This led most of the boys to follow in his footsteps to becoming no more than animals themselves.

Ralph points this deeply innate fear out to Jack saying, “‘They talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others. As if—""As if it wasn't a good island." Astonished at the interruption, they looked up at Simon's serious face."As if," said Simon, "the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?’”(52) Though many of the older years know that the Beastie is only the vines in the trees, the group still feels as if there was a monster that makes the island itself evil. However, the Beast was really the dark aspect of human nature and existed through their actions, corrupting the island, not the other way around. Simon, a representation of innate goodness and wisdom, is the first to realize that the Beast is inside of of human beings. Simon felt, “felt a flicker of incredulity—a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human, at once heroic and sick”(103). Simon, unlike Piggy and the others, did not imagine a monster or other people as the Beast, but humans who intended to be the “hero” and became “sick” with greed for power and fear. Jack utilizes fear of the Beast to increase his own power among the boys,

In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, a group of British boys are left stranded on an island. There are no parents to enforce rules or be a leader to keep the boys civil, so the boys quickly become savage by creating the havoc that causes the death of two innocent boys. Jack’s character quickly transforms into a savage and most of the boys follow Jack so they can play and show their inner savagery through pure acts of evil. Golding uses the transformation of Jack and his tribe’s power to show man’s savage state of nature when all rules of society are unrecognized and there is no leader to keep the boys together, separation leads to war and death.