Adolf Hitler, like many hellish dictators, was a natural born leader, exhibiting qualities like manipulative public speaking skills. “Almost from the moment Adolf Hitler stepped behind the crude lectern placed atop the head table the audience was ‘electrified’” (Toland). It was then that people realized he would have a paramount impact on Germany in the future. Hitler fed the people what they wished to consume as the crescendo to power began to branch. The stock market crash in the United States in 1929 not only marked the start of the Great Depression in America, but also in Germany, whose people immediately grew fond of Hitler’s promises of new jobs and military power. Confessed vulnerabilities makes it simple for human nature to encroach
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Unlike the task of keeping the fire lit, which is seemingly tedious to the boys, Jack's hunt offers camaraderie, esoteric knowledge, a clear end to the task, and a tangible reward at its end. This is one instance of Golding’s insistence of Jack’s similarity to Hitler. The boy is a grand master of manipulation and public image as well. He grants or withholds meat, grants or withholds the right to hunt, stages public re-creations of the hunt to demonstrate his hunters' prowess (Golding 115), makes use of uniforms—first the choirboys' uniforms and then the hunting paint—to create a sense of belonging, and, cleverest of all, hints at the exclusivity of his band while intending to absorb the entire island population under his control: "If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I'll let you join. Perhaps not...He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint" (Golding 140). Jack is the Freudian id, Hitler, the school bully, a savage, a killer. Yet he is also a boy, frightened of the other boys' disapproval, frantic to be popular, and jealous of Ralph's friendship with Piggy. All of his machinations and displays come from such basic human insecurities. In the beginning of the novel, he has nothing but the leadership of his choir, a leadership that the elected leader, Ralph, bestows upon him. The conch, symbol of parliamentary discourse, is in Ralph's control. Jack cannot even manage to wound a pig, let alone kill it. With sheer political genius he elevates the hunt while denigrating the conch until the former becomes the whole focus of the island and the latter is destroyed. He begins by speaking out of turn, without the conch (Golding 87), later shouting down those who hold the conch. Each encroachment on the conch's power as a symbol is either tolerated or ineffectively opposed. From the time of Jack’s first kill in Chapter 4, he surrounds
Unlike the task of keeping the fire lit, which is seemingly tedious to the boys, Jack's hunt offers camaraderie, esoteric knowledge, a clear end to the task, and a tangible reward at its end. This is one instance of Golding’s insistence of Jack’s similarity to Hitler. The boy is a grand master of manipulation and public image as well. He grants or withholds meat, grants or withholds the right to hunt, stages public re-creations of the hunt to demonstrate his hunters' prowess (Golding 115), makes use of uniforms—first the choirboys' uniforms and then the hunting paint—to create a sense of belonging, and, cleverest of all, hints at the exclusivity of his band while intending to absorb the entire island population under his control: "If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I'll let you join. Perhaps not...He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint" (Golding 140). Jack is the Freudian id, Hitler, the school bully, a savage, a killer. Yet he is also a boy, frightened of the other boys' disapproval, frantic to be popular, and jealous of Ralph's friendship with Piggy. All of his machinations and displays come from such basic human insecurities. In the beginning of the novel, he has nothing but the leadership of his choir, a leadership that the elected leader, Ralph, bestows upon him. The conch, symbol of parliamentary discourse, is in Ralph's control. Jack cannot even manage to wound a pig, let alone kill it. With sheer political genius he elevates the hunt while denigrating the conch until the former becomes the whole focus of the island and the latter is destroyed. He begins by speaking out of turn, without the conch (Golding 87), later shouting down those who hold the conch. Each encroachment on the conch's power as a symbol is either tolerated or ineffectively opposed. From the time of Jack’s first kill in Chapter 4, he surrounds