Savagery in Boys In Lord of the Flies, Golding shows that savagery is an innate part of the human mind by showing the natural progression of savagery in the boys.
Throughout the book Golding shows how the innate savagery in Jack’s mind is progressing and starting to show. As Jack and Ralph fight about the shelters, “ [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). Golding begins to show savagery spreading through the boys, particularly in Jack by showing his desire to hunt and kill. Jack’s desire to hunt and kill proves that savage nature is an innate part of the human mind. Throughout their time on the island Jack, Ralph, and all of the boys who later joined Jack's "tribe" lost the maintenance …show more content…
As Jack pleads to Ralph "The hunters' thoughts were crowded with memories...of the knowledge...that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will on it, taken away it's life like a long satisfying drink"(70). Golding shows the savage nature of the boys by describing their brutal and ruthless feelings about conquering the pig.The boy's desire to kill a helpless living, breathing animal further proves innate savagery lies in the human mind in this violent act of savagery. As the boys located a pig "they surrounded the covert but the sow got away with the sting of another spear in her flank... She blundered into a tree, forcing a spear still deeper: and after that any of the hunters could follow easily by the drops of vivid blood...here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her...the air full of sweat and noise and blood and terror... The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot voids spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them...then grabbed Maurice and the stuff (blood) over his cheeks...'right up her (butt)'"(135). The boys show extreme savagery through the unnecessary maiming and killing of the sow. How the boys killed the mother pig is an equivalent to dropping a bomb on a city which was mentioned in the text. As Simon crawls out of the forest into the clearing "The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest it came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe. 'kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'... at once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, kept onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore"(152). The boys have been blinded by their newfound savagery, so much so that it's to the point that
Throughout the book Golding shows how the innate savagery in Jack’s mind is progressing and starting to show. As Jack and Ralph fight about the shelters, “ [Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up” (51). Golding begins to show savagery spreading through the boys, particularly in Jack by showing his desire to hunt and kill. Jack’s desire to hunt and kill proves that savage nature is an innate part of the human mind. Throughout their time on the island Jack, Ralph, and all of the boys who later joined Jack's "tribe" lost the maintenance …show more content…
As Jack pleads to Ralph "The hunters' thoughts were crowded with memories...of the knowledge...that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will on it, taken away it's life like a long satisfying drink"(70). Golding shows the savage nature of the boys by describing their brutal and ruthless feelings about conquering the pig.The boy's desire to kill a helpless living, breathing animal further proves innate savagery lies in the human mind in this violent act of savagery. As the boys located a pig "they surrounded the covert but the sow got away with the sting of another spear in her flank... She blundered into a tree, forcing a spear still deeper: and after that any of the hunters could follow easily by the drops of vivid blood...here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her...the air full of sweat and noise and blood and terror... The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high pitched scream. Then Jack found the throat and the hot voids spouted over his hands. The sow collapsed under them...then grabbed Maurice and the stuff (blood) over his cheeks...'right up her (butt)'"(135). The boys show extreme savagery through the unnecessary maiming and killing of the sow. How the boys killed the mother pig is an equivalent to dropping a bomb on a city which was mentioned in the text. As Simon crawls out of the forest into the clearing "The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest it came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe. 'kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'... at once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, kept onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore"(152). The boys have been blinded by their newfound savagery, so much so that it's to the point that