In Lord of the Flies one of the first thing the boys do after the plane crash is gather around each other to vote for a chief. In this voting there were two candidates, Jack and Ralph. Ralph won not only due to his good looks but he also had a good vibe around the boys, contradictory to the mean and intimidating Jack. In the voting, I thought Ralph represented Britain which was a powerful, civilized, business booming country, in other words it looked beautiful in a comparison test. Jack on the other hand represented Germany which lacked a large empire and also lacked power, not too good looking in a comparison against England. Also let’s not forget Germany was still in debt due to the reparations it owed other countries from WWI, placing it
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Jack Merridew is the antagonist in the novel, and he is the Hitler of the island. Golding wants the reader to get the evil feeling from Jack as soon as he is introduced to us “Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.” (Golding 20), notice that Golding even gives Jack blue eyes to match them with those of Hitler's. At the beginning of the novel, Jack for the first time attempts to kill a pig but he is unsuccessful but when he finally does he becomes a different person, he feels more powerful, he feels like he should control everyone even more, we see a very similar stage in Hitler’s life, the stage where he comes into power after joining Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. As the end of the novel approaches, there seems to be a change in the Chief of the island, all of the boys start to follow Jack instead of Ralph, and at this point we get to notice what type of leader Jack really is, he is a leader who runs on the enticement of violence, “Jack, on the other hand, represents a totalitarian dictator, a ruler who appeals to the emotional responses of his followers. He rules by charisma and hysteria.” (Henningfeld 1) and the young boys love violence which they get plenty of with Jack and not so much
Jack Merridew is the antagonist in the novel, and he is the Hitler of the island. Golding wants the reader to get the evil feeling from Jack as soon as he is introduced to us “Inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin, and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.” (Golding 20), notice that Golding even gives Jack blue eyes to match them with those of Hitler's. At the beginning of the novel, Jack for the first time attempts to kill a pig but he is unsuccessful but when he finally does he becomes a different person, he feels more powerful, he feels like he should control everyone even more, we see a very similar stage in Hitler’s life, the stage where he comes into power after joining Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. As the end of the novel approaches, there seems to be a change in the Chief of the island, all of the boys start to follow Jack instead of Ralph, and at this point we get to notice what type of leader Jack really is, he is a leader who runs on the enticement of violence, “Jack, on the other hand, represents a totalitarian dictator, a ruler who appeals to the emotional responses of his followers. He rules by charisma and hysteria.” (Henningfeld 1) and the young boys love violence which they get plenty of with Jack and not so much