Jack, leader of a
group of choirboys and ultimately
chief of the
hunters, is Ralph's principal antagonist.
Described as
having a full
head of red hair, wearing a black cloak and bullying his
way through the
boys, his role as a villain is fairly clear from the
beginning. Jack is destined to be the primary cause of
destruction on
the island;
however, he is not presented as a one-dimensional monster.
Golding forges a
more complex and subsequently more credible
character than
that. Jack does, for instance, feel some
regrets for the
blood on his
hands.
But before long he represses and
noble instincts
and embraces a
life of savagery. He makes the
psychological break
symbolically when
he baptizes himself with the blood of a slaughtered
pig. With the exception of Ralph, Piggy, and a few
others, he
eventually lures
the other boys to follow him in a life consecrated in
blood, a life
which will lead them to multiple murders.
Abstractly, Jack
represents the
bestial instinct of the human being unrestrained by any
rational
Control.
Jack is a devil
because of the savage ways he acts like the red
hair, painted
faces, the savage pig hunts, the rituals, sacrifices, and the
terrorist acts. Jack is evil because of him being always
murderous. He
is always wanting
to hunt things and not care what happens to the
animal. Once he gets incharge of his own group he
paints his face and
his red hair make
him look like the devil. He uses
threating comments
to get other
people join his group. And he goes on
savage acts like
going and
beating up Ralph and Piggy for Piggy's
glasses. Jack is
always bulling
his way through all the boys like he forces Piggy to give
him Piggy's glasses.
Jack is evil like when he sees that it is beginning
to get dark and
he unexpectedly orders the tribe to do its dance. All the
boys leap up and
step wildly around the blazing fire, waving their
weapons. They intone a bloodcurdling chant and become
wilder and
wilder. That's some of the savagery that Jack does in
this book.
Jack is like the devil because of the savage
things that he does
and the nasty
ways that he treats people like
Piggy. That is what I
would think that
is why Jack is like the devil....
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