The Beast In Lord Of The Flies

The novel “Lord of the Flies” was written by William Golding to demonstrate the problems of society and the sinful nature of man.

There are no adults on the island. No one to make them feel safe when there is an unknown creature that feeds off fear. Jack takes that fear and causes a decline in the society of the boys on the island. First of all, he is stubborn. Jack is also immature and reckless. Thirdly, he is power-hungry. Lastly, Jack is driven by fear.

Jack is showing how savagery is becoming a monster in him. This monster is a threat to social order because it foreshadows what will happen in the future. It shows that Jack will turn full savage and stop following Ralph’s rules. He will create his own tribe and the people in that tribe will all turn into savages too.

Jack loves power and only likes laws and rules because it lets him punish others who break them to show his power. In this quote he shows his love of hunting and killing because he gets the chance to dominate nature, "Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!" (Golding Chapter 4) . He always gets mad when he doesn't get his way and in the end of the book he becomes the leader, controlling the power for his benefit only. Jack Symbolizes the human love of dominance and

During a cutthroat assembly with the boys, the competition for power arises yet again. Jack becomes fed up with Ralph’s rules and scoldings, and is spontaneously prompted to “[go] off by [him]self” (page number) leaving the circle of boys “shivering with dread.” (page number) Golding displays a great sense of confidence in Jack, by giving him the courage to separate himself from the pack of boys, venturing into the unknown forest in hopes to satisfy his craving to kill, signaling the devious shift in Jack's mindset as he prioritizes his needs and desires over that of the boys. Eventually, Jack begins to hide from himself by painting a menacing “mask” (page number) on his face in order to conceal himself from his prey while also liberating himself from “shame and self conscience” (page number).

Throughout the novel Lord Of The Flies, the boys on the island are continuously faced with numerous fears. Subsequently there is nothing on the island which they fear more than the beast. The beast is not a tangible object that can be killed or destroyed by conventional means, but an idea symbolizing the primal savage instincts within all people. Its Golding’s intention to illustrate the innate evil inside man through his view of human nature, the actions of the Jack and his tribe, and the relationship between the beast and the school boys.

The book demonstrates how Jack is evil. He liked to be mean to people and say mean things to them. Jack does not care, because they do not have an adult around, he also wanted to be the chief. “Serves you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry babies.”(83). This is how he thinks about everyone on the island, he was not a nice boy. He also was mean with knowing that no beast lives on the island and telling the boy’s that there is a beast. “You, listen. The beast is sitting up there, whatever it is--”(126). This is just how he tells the boys about the beast, one of the many times. Golding does a great job about demonstrating us Jack’s rude and mean personality.

William Golding’s first novel, Lord of the Flies, presents his pessimistic views on society and our primitive instincts. He demonstrates this through the setting of an inhabited island where a group of British schoolboys have been stranded. The entire story becomes a symbol for the theme Golding is developing, about the darkness within humanity. Within Lord of the Flies, William Golding highlights the flaws of society back to the flaws within human instincts, through the characters of Jack, Roger and Simon.

Ralph and Jack both have very different opinions about the conch. By showing these opinions, they illustrate the struggle between good and evil. From the very beginning, a conch is used to summon the boys and it quickly becomes clear that the conch symbolizes the constraints of

Jack uses the beast to gain power and promises of protection for the boys; from the beast. Jack uses the boys’ fear of the beast to manipulate them to his own advantage. He knows it doesn’t exist; however he uses its hypothetical existence to ensure the compliance of the other boys and follow his commands. Fear is the source of Jack’s power. The other boys don’t flock to Jack for his personality or leadership; instead, they gather around him for the solace he promised them.

Imagine sitting on an airplane, then all of a sudden you wake up and find yourself stranded on an uncharted island. Your palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms heavy. When all the adults have died and you are the only person alive with a group of boys on the break of adolescence… Without an adult how will one survive? In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies there are many characters that are perceived as savages. When an airplane crashes on an undiscovered island, the only survivors are young boys. Throughout the novel, the boys fight for their survival, but many fear that there is a beast who may be lurking on the island. As the boys were once moral, their innocence slowly disintegrates away and they turn into their true form, a bloodthirsty savage. Perhaps the beast is within themselves.

“Maybe ... maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us”(William Golding). In the novel Lord of The Flies, William Golding exhibits the symbolism and representation of the beast. The beast represents the norm of society and how most citizens are conceived to evil. As the novel progresses, the reader's perspective of the beast transforms from a possibly harmful animal into to a representation of human civilization and how humans are ignorant and oblivious when it becomes survival of the fittest. The concept of the beast changes significantly during the novel from first the beast on land, then to the beast in the air and finally to the beast within the kids themselves.

Once these boys join Jack’s tribe, they are forced to follow his orders, committing heinous atrocities against their former friends in a desperate attempt to avoid the physical punishment Jack inflicts on those who disobey him. Jack rules his subjects through fear and intimidation, and yet lures them in by playing on hidden desires unbeknownst to them. Jack is often shown acting cruel and menacing towards the other boys, however is he also shown as being self-conscious and a bit insecure: “Boys are desperate to distract from their own helplessness and do so by projecting their fear of subjection onto an even weaker

Initially, when the “beast” is first introduced, it represents fear. According to Claire Rosenfield in her physiological analysis of Lord of the Flies, The boys are petrified by the island in the absence of "consoling mothers," and they personify their fears into a "beast" (DOC A). We see this in the article "Now he says it was a beastie" (Document B) when the boy with the mulberry birthmark tries to explain it: "He says he saw the beastie, the snake-thing, and will it come back tonight?' ' But there isn't a beastie!" (DOC B)

By saying that he will hunt down the beast, he is reassuring the boys that if they follow him, then the beast will be killed and they will have nothing to fear. It could be argued that Jack is helping the boys by saying that he will kill hunt down and kill the beast. While Jack is able to kill the beast, as shown to us by his ability to hunt pigs, his intentions are to take control of the boys by making them feel safe under his rule. Jack knows that the boys are vulnerable due to their fear, so he takes advantage of this by saying that he can solve their problems if he is their leader. As shown in the beginning of the chapter, Jack does not believe in the beast and only cares about absolute power over the boys on the island. William Golding uses the time of night to show the motif of darkness because the night is generally thought to be a dark time while the only light on the island was the bombs in the sky from the military battle. He also shows that the littluns have nightmares during the night about the beast. He is also using Jack to show motif because he is a representation of fear and darkness, which shows how he is slowly taking control over the boys. Though Jack does not have complete power as of yet, he is making a foundation for his rise to