The human child has inside them two choices of life: the good and the bad. Throughout the lives of children, society supresses the darkness in human nature through rules, morals, and structure. In the classic novel Lord of the Flies, author William Golding shows how easily one’s morals can be forgotten when one is separated from society and all of its constructs by following the many disturbing mishaps from a single boy; a young child named Jack.
First, this idea is expressed through a representation of these two opposing forces is displayed by the character of light, Ralph, and a character of darkness, Jack. When Ralph enters the scene, he is a fair haired boy, who immediately removes his clothing as if to take a burden away from himself. He is described as agile as he leaps from rock to rock. Then Jack is introduced, “Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and boney: and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness.”(William Goulding 16). Jack is described as polar opposite to Ralph and does not care as much about the wellbeing of the others, only that his choir listens to him. …show more content…
When Jack is having little luck with hunting, he conceals his identity with a mask. After painting his mask, Jack loses all control, "He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing all on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness." (Goulding 66). Since Jack was put in charge of hunting, the power of the lives of animals changed him, he got to decide which pig lived and which pig did not, and this power went to his head, changing him into a boy who was desperate for all
First, this idea is expressed through a representation of these two opposing forces is displayed by the character of light, Ralph, and a character of darkness, Jack. When Ralph enters the scene, he is a fair haired boy, who immediately removes his clothing as if to take a burden away from himself. He is described as agile as he leaps from rock to rock. Then Jack is introduced, “Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and boney: and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness.”(William Goulding 16). Jack is described as polar opposite to Ralph and does not care as much about the wellbeing of the others, only that his choir listens to him. …show more content…
When Jack is having little luck with hunting, he conceals his identity with a mask. After painting his mask, Jack loses all control, "He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing all on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness." (Goulding 66). Since Jack was put in charge of hunting, the power of the lives of animals changed him, he got to decide which pig lived and which pig did not, and this power went to his head, changing him into a boy who was desperate for all