The Transition from an English Schoolboy
In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys is involved in a plane crash that strands them on a South Pacific island with no adults around. The boys have to fend for themselves to survive. Throughout the novel the character Jack evolves from a very prestigious English school boy into a savage who becomes obsessed with hunting. Jack becomes an animal on the island, drifting away from the traditional English ways that were taught to him in school.
When Jack first crashes on the island with the other boys, he is a boy that feels bound by English traditions. When he first appears in the novel he is walking up the beach leading his group of choir boys marching in formation who are …show more content…
He and his followers do not wear the traditional English clothes any more but now paint themselves. “They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought”(155). He has also replaced killing animals with being a hunter that kills people that results in the death of almost three people Simon, Piggy, and almost Ralph. It starts with Simon who is mistaken for the beast in a frenzy to satisfy the tribe’s bloodlust and fear of the unknown. They chant themselves into killing Simon, saying, “‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”(136) Then later, when Ralph and Piggy try to make means with Jack, by returning the conch. For example when they come running out of the woods to surround Piggy and Ralph; “High above them from the pinnacles came a sudden shout and then an imitation war-cry that was answered by a dozen voices from behind the rock”(157). In total this shows the drastic change that Jack has made from a proper English schoolboy to a savage. Throughout the stay on the island Ralph has alway been the one who has been one upping Jack which upsets Jack and he is now on the verge of killing Ralph just like how he killed Simon and Piggy. The members of his tribe were prepping the weapons to go
In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys is involved in a plane crash that strands them on a South Pacific island with no adults around. The boys have to fend for themselves to survive. Throughout the novel the character Jack evolves from a very prestigious English school boy into a savage who becomes obsessed with hunting. Jack becomes an animal on the island, drifting away from the traditional English ways that were taught to him in school.
When Jack first crashes on the island with the other boys, he is a boy that feels bound by English traditions. When he first appears in the novel he is walking up the beach leading his group of choir boys marching in formation who are …show more content…
He and his followers do not wear the traditional English clothes any more but now paint themselves. “They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought”(155). He has also replaced killing animals with being a hunter that kills people that results in the death of almost three people Simon, Piggy, and almost Ralph. It starts with Simon who is mistaken for the beast in a frenzy to satisfy the tribe’s bloodlust and fear of the unknown. They chant themselves into killing Simon, saying, “‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”(136) Then later, when Ralph and Piggy try to make means with Jack, by returning the conch. For example when they come running out of the woods to surround Piggy and Ralph; “High above them from the pinnacles came a sudden shout and then an imitation war-cry that was answered by a dozen voices from behind the rock”(157). In total this shows the drastic change that Jack has made from a proper English schoolboy to a savage. Throughout the stay on the island Ralph has alway been the one who has been one upping Jack which upsets Jack and he is now on the verge of killing Ralph just like how he killed Simon and Piggy. The members of his tribe were prepping the weapons to go