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Thesis: - Power makes man hideous; Lord of the flies shows how power led majority of the boys towards darkness, how Jack wanted to have an upper hand over Ralph and how Roger slayed Piggy under the influence of Jack. They were not born vicious; it was their yearning for power that made them barbarous.
“The way to have power is to take it.” Unacceptable things are done to gain supremacy over society. Power attracts the inferiors of all mankind and corrupts the finest. Either the society kills to gain the upper hand or they get killed. Power just knows how to manipulate mankind and gain dominance over it. Power makes society do atrocious things.
The island sees survivors from a plane crash so dreadful that no one would have been …show more content…
“he rubbed the charcoal stick between the patches of red and white on his face” (Golding 79). The first instance where Jack paints his face. Savagery was inviting Jack to her. Jack then looked his reflection in water and disliked it and planned a new face for him. He made his one cheek and one eye socket white in color, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to the left jawline (Golding 79-80). He was so obsessed to hunt that he forgot who he really was. He laughed with excitement when he saw his reflection in the water. His laughter than became a bloodthirsty snarl (Golding 80). He hid his true self behind his atrocious mask, he hid from himself, his shame, his self-consciousness. Rest of the boys were compelled by the mask; it was a symbol of killing for them. They then became hunters, hid all their civilized learnings behind the mask and were taken over by savagery. Ralph was the monarch of the wild at that time, the boys found Jack to be amusing. Ralph was sincere but the boys wanted adventure, they wanted fun, they wanted something to distract them from their realities. But in doing so they really forgot how to remain civilized. They started hunting pigs and Roger sharpened an end of a stick and they stuck up the head of the pig. From the first day …show more content…
Jack waved his spear in the air, made the boys gather around him and asked “who will join my tribe?” Ralph disagreed with his question, “you all chose me as your chief, I am your chief!”-Ralph. “I gave you food and my hunters will provide us with safety from the beast.” (Golding 185). Even though unintentionally, the quest for power consumed Jack from all his morals. He went on to making his own tribe. ‘twas an extreme step, he was a control freak and could never be under someone else’s rule. So he chose to make his own kingdom and disobey his King. To be the king of his own kingdom, he had to have himself pawns, knights and loyal servants; which he stole from Ralph. Power drives madness through a man, not just one particular man but the whole mankind. From the era of the kings to the modern era there is one thing that has not changed; ‘to be in Power.’ Jack was not born evil, he was a kind, humble human being, it was the circumstances or the island(society) that made him vile. He would have never done this if he was civilized but being alone on an island and no one to look over the boys, drove them to do the things that they never even dreamed
Thesis: - Power makes man hideous; Lord of the flies shows how power led majority of the boys towards darkness, how Jack wanted to have an upper hand over Ralph and how Roger slayed Piggy under the influence of Jack. They were not born vicious; it was their yearning for power that made them barbarous.
“The way to have power is to take it.” Unacceptable things are done to gain supremacy over society. Power attracts the inferiors of all mankind and corrupts the finest. Either the society kills to gain the upper hand or they get killed. Power just knows how to manipulate mankind and gain dominance over it. Power makes society do atrocious things.
The island sees survivors from a plane crash so dreadful that no one would have been …show more content…
“he rubbed the charcoal stick between the patches of red and white on his face” (Golding 79). The first instance where Jack paints his face. Savagery was inviting Jack to her. Jack then looked his reflection in water and disliked it and planned a new face for him. He made his one cheek and one eye socket white in color, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to the left jawline (Golding 79-80). He was so obsessed to hunt that he forgot who he really was. He laughed with excitement when he saw his reflection in the water. His laughter than became a bloodthirsty snarl (Golding 80). He hid his true self behind his atrocious mask, he hid from himself, his shame, his self-consciousness. Rest of the boys were compelled by the mask; it was a symbol of killing for them. They then became hunters, hid all their civilized learnings behind the mask and were taken over by savagery. Ralph was the monarch of the wild at that time, the boys found Jack to be amusing. Ralph was sincere but the boys wanted adventure, they wanted fun, they wanted something to distract them from their realities. But in doing so they really forgot how to remain civilized. They started hunting pigs and Roger sharpened an end of a stick and they stuck up the head of the pig. From the first day …show more content…
Jack waved his spear in the air, made the boys gather around him and asked “who will join my tribe?” Ralph disagreed with his question, “you all chose me as your chief, I am your chief!”-Ralph. “I gave you food and my hunters will provide us with safety from the beast.” (Golding 185). Even though unintentionally, the quest for power consumed Jack from all his morals. He went on to making his own tribe. ‘twas an extreme step, he was a control freak and could never be under someone else’s rule. So he chose to make his own kingdom and disobey his King. To be the king of his own kingdom, he had to have himself pawns, knights and loyal servants; which he stole from Ralph. Power drives madness through a man, not just one particular man but the whole mankind. From the era of the kings to the modern era there is one thing that has not changed; ‘to be in Power.’ Jack was not born evil, he was a kind, humble human being, it was the circumstances or the island(society) that made him vile. He would have never done this if he was civilized but being alone on an island and no one to look over the boys, drove them to do the things that they never even dreamed