Within the course of the novel, Golding links cruelty to fear by creating a chain of reactions that lead up to the spiteful ways the boys deal with the Beast, their worst nightmare. At first, most of the children cry and whimper about a monster in the forest, but eventually, they respond to their outrageous situation with a tremendous amount of energy, excitement, and cruelty towards other life forms: “He [Jack] stood up, holding the dripping sow’s head in his hands … and jammed the soft throat down the pointed end of the stick … The head hung there, a little blood dripping down the stick … ‘This head is for the beast. It’s a gift’” (Golding 2). Moving on, when Jack “jammed the [pig’s] soft throat” into the sharpened stick and left the bloody
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Instead, the reason behind his cruel schemes is due to his fear of losing power. When the topic of the Beast is first introduced, fairly after Ralph is elected chief and before the boys all went wild, Jack attempts to earn himself control over the other boys, his potential tribe, by declaring, “If there’s a Beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat!” (91). Within the quote, it is clear that Jack has had cruelty inside of him, even before he turned into a savage, because he is telling the littluns that they will “hunt it [the Beast] down” even though it has not harmed or even encountered the society of boys yet. Additionally, it cruelty is obviously present on Jack’s side because he is single-handedly planting ideas of performing vicious actions, such as slaughtering a Beast when he knows that there is no “Beast,” into the littluns’ heads in order to woo them to his side and away from Ralph’s civilized views. This action leads the littluns to categorize their future wrongdoings, such as murders, as “not a big deal” because if they learn that it is acceptable to close in on a Beast “and beat and beat and beat,” they will acknowledge the fact that that everything they do is not as evil or cruel as beating a ghastly fiend. Besides, when Jack announces, “If there’s a Beast, we’ll hunt it down,” he is …show more content…
Even today in reality, cruelty continues to follow everyone around, no matter what people, of all ages, may say. Citizens, living their lives either in hiding or exploring, all show signs of cruelty and fear by doing deeds as large as committing an offense to harm another or simply just using others for one's advantage. Nevertheless, this symbol of darkness that is typically described as the word 'cruelty,' is everywhere and in everyone; there is no way to escape
Instead, the reason behind his cruel schemes is due to his fear of losing power. When the topic of the Beast is first introduced, fairly after Ralph is elected chief and before the boys all went wild, Jack attempts to earn himself control over the other boys, his potential tribe, by declaring, “If there’s a Beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat!” (91). Within the quote, it is clear that Jack has had cruelty inside of him, even before he turned into a savage, because he is telling the littluns that they will “hunt it [the Beast] down” even though it has not harmed or even encountered the society of boys yet. Additionally, it cruelty is obviously present on Jack’s side because he is single-handedly planting ideas of performing vicious actions, such as slaughtering a Beast when he knows that there is no “Beast,” into the littluns’ heads in order to woo them to his side and away from Ralph’s civilized views. This action leads the littluns to categorize their future wrongdoings, such as murders, as “not a big deal” because if they learn that it is acceptable to close in on a Beast “and beat and beat and beat,” they will acknowledge the fact that that everything they do is not as evil or cruel as beating a ghastly fiend. Besides, when Jack announces, “If there’s a Beast, we’ll hunt it down,” he is …show more content…
Even today in reality, cruelty continues to follow everyone around, no matter what people, of all ages, may say. Citizens, living their lives either in hiding or exploring, all show signs of cruelty and fear by doing deeds as large as committing an offense to harm another or simply just using others for one's advantage. Nevertheless, this symbol of darkness that is typically described as the word 'cruelty,' is everywhere and in everyone; there is no way to escape