Jack Merridew Quotes

The first indication of Jack’s violence is

It is understandable that Jack would have the desire to hunt, considering the act of killing gives off one of the most extreme feelings of power. This might be the reason that he leads violent and gruesome hunt's everyday, sometimes more than once. Nobody questioned his motive to hunt until Jack said, “Use a littlun (page 160).” This referred to a game that he was playing, during which they used a human and tried to kill them like they would a pig. Even the suggestion of this would cause the other kids to question what is going on up in his mind, even questioning his morals and

Jack Merridew: From Proper School Boy to Vicious Savage. “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to human nature” (Golding 204). Jack Merridew, one of the main characters in the book gives readers an idea as to what could happen if society didn’t have rules and laws. People would lose sight of their morals and it would eventually lead to personality and physical change. In the book Lord of the Flies William Golding demonstrates character change in Jack by modifying his physical image, personality and morals.

“I ought to be chief...because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp” (Golding22). The characters in Lord of the Flies by William Golding go through changes, especially Jack Merridew. As the story builds up, he exchanged his innocence with the savagery and discipline with the rebellion. Also, he lost his sense of civilization. At the beginning of the novel, Jack wasn’t capable of hunting, instead he was a reasonable leader and law-abiding. However, toward the end, not only did he kill a pig, he was determined to kill the boys. He rebelled through liberating the restrictions- eventually becomes the symbol of evil.

This evidence shows how Jack is violent and wants the boys to fear him to gain power. Another example of Jack's violence is how much of a desire he has to hunt and kill a pig. Jack shows violence when his hunters kill a pig and start chanting, “Kill the pig”. Cut her

From the beginning of the book Jack would stab tree trunks when he did not get a kill but when he did he felt empowered and always tried to take leadership of the group. He was always jealous of Ralph because Ralph was chief and that gave him power over everyone including Jack. Jack is unfamiliar with this kind of setting so instinctively strived to be leader. Then when Jack finally became leader of his own tribe he was taking the power for granted. Instead of encouraging his tribe to try to be rescued, he scared them into being reckless

He is aggressive, power-hungry, and he doesn’t think. Jack is not logical at all. All he wants is to be the leader of the boys, hunt pigs, and kill the beast. The beast is first mentioned when one of the littluns says, “He still says he saw the beastie. It came and went away again an’ came back and wanted to eat him-”

From the moment he is introduced, Jack continuously progresses into more and more of a savage. Jack chooses savagery over civilization numerous times, whether powerful acts or insignificant, casual acts. In Chapter two on page thirty-three Jack gets enthusiastic about making rules solely for the reason that it gives him some power and opportunity to administer the new undefined rules. In chapter four, Painted Faces and Long Hair, Jack creates a new, uncivilized identity for hunting.

William Golding’s novel ‘The Lord of The Flies’ tells the story of a group of English boys isolated on a desert island, left to attempt to retain civilisation. In the novel, Golding shows one of the boys, Jack, to change significantly. At the beginning of the book, Jack’s character desires power and although he does not immediately get it, he retains the values of civilized behaviour. However, as the story proceeds, his character becomes more savage, leaving behind the values of society. Jack uses fear of the beast to control the other boys and he changes to become the book’s representation of savagery, violence and domination. He is first taken over with an obsession to hunt, which leads to a change in his physical appearance This change

Once Jack feels the sensation of the kill, he becomes addicted and can’t stop. I think that he took the killing a little too seriously because he and the other boys ended up killing Simion, when they mistook him for the beast (what the boys believe to be a snake looking monster). They spend all their energy fearing the beast and trying to kill it, even though it was just their imagination. Later on in the book we see Jack create his own group, separate from Ralph’s (the other leader of the boys) because he doesn’t agree with Ralph's ideas and only wants to

If there is a beast we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat-!”(99). Compared it to the first explanation of how Jack shows his dark side, here it is also obvious that he does not have that civil part anymore. Besides, he ignores the rules about safety and peace on the island while he wants to beat the beast down which is a thing people should be frightened. So his changing in a small time period and showing himself more savage, represent the darkness Jack has.

Jack’s natural state of savagery becomes so overpowering at the thought of killing that it prevents him from thinking logically. His madness is so vigorous that it can be seen in his eyes. Jack begins to break the rules because there is no one to enforce the rules. “The opaque, mad look came into his eyes again. Ralph looked at him critically through his tangle of fair hair.

To begin with Jack, Jack wants power and leadership. The situation Jack is in makes his evil grow. Jack is letting the situation control him which is increasing the evil inside of him. The evil inside him is making him more selfish and violent. For example, at the starting of the novel when Jack had failed to kill the pig he cries to Ralph, “[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. ‘I went on. I thought, by myself-’ The madness came into his eyes again. ‘I thought I might kill.” (Golding 51). The quote shows how at the starting of the novel Jack had good inside of him as he had feared killing an animal which makes sense as he is a kid. This shows that Jack was not evil from the beginning. But the situation and atmosphere increase the evil inside of him when he says, “I thought I might kill” this shows how the

Violence begins to emerge in Jack at the end of the novel. This is the last quality that shows Jack is a dynamic character. By the end of the book, Jack has become a murderer. Not only

Jack quickly transforms from a civil and innocent boy to a savage in the story. In the beginning, Jack is civil and innocent as he follows society’s rules and he quickly becomes a savage and begins to feel pleasure when doing acts of evil. Jack is focused on killing his first pig throughout the beginning of the story and lets this corrupt him. He begins to act as if he is an animal himself. Golding writes, “His laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Golding 64). Jack can be seen as a man eating carnivore here instead of an innocent little boy. Jack is also afraid to kill at first because of his innocence as he says,“I thought I might kill” (Golding 51). This shows Jack’s hesitation to kill and also shows the rules of society are still in his mind even though there are no adult figures to enforce rules of society. Savagery