Will Durant once said “civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos”. In Lord of the Flies written by William Golding you can observe the transformation of Jack's character as he defies orders from Ralph and becomes savage as the characters around him disregard it. You can see the start of Jack's discontent begins in the first chapter where Jack is set on becoming chief and says “with arrogance”(18) ‘“I ought to be chief,”’(18). With the boys voting on Ralph as their leader, Jack was not happy as “the freckles on [his] face under a blush of mortification”(19). Along with the power struggle with Ralph Jack's obsession with hunting grows as Ralph tells Jack he is “‘in charge of the [hunters]”’. With this new power Jack
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Suddenly when Ralph notices “‘a ship []”’on the horizon but with Jack and his hunters to fixated on finding a pig they did not keep the fire going. When Ralph confronts Jack we can see the anger and rage built up inside him. “Jack shouted in rage”(52) “‘are you accusing me”’(52). By chapter four we can all see Jack’s change as paints his face and starts to feel like an animal as he looks at his reflection “in astonishment, no long at himself but at an awesome stranger”(64). With a painted face Jack feels free from himself and can act like a different person as he begins “to dance and his laughter [becomes] [...] bloodthirsty snarling”(64) as he becomes savage. Finally, with Jack's new identity he kills a pig with his hunters walking by to the shelters “with the pig swinging between them, dropping black gouts on the rocks”(73) Jack rushed back to tell Ralph with pride “‘I cut the throat… [there was] lashings of blood’”(73). If Ralph did not become chief and made him and Jack equals maybe Jack may not have felt like killing and gaining more power was the only
Suddenly when Ralph notices “‘a ship []”’on the horizon but with Jack and his hunters to fixated on finding a pig they did not keep the fire going. When Ralph confronts Jack we can see the anger and rage built up inside him. “Jack shouted in rage”(52) “‘are you accusing me”’(52). By chapter four we can all see Jack’s change as paints his face and starts to feel like an animal as he looks at his reflection “in astonishment, no long at himself but at an awesome stranger”(64). With a painted face Jack feels free from himself and can act like a different person as he begins “to dance and his laughter [becomes] [...] bloodthirsty snarling”(64) as he becomes savage. Finally, with Jack's new identity he kills a pig with his hunters walking by to the shelters “with the pig swinging between them, dropping black gouts on the rocks”(73) Jack rushed back to tell Ralph with pride “‘I cut the throat… [there was] lashings of blood’”(73). If Ralph did not become chief and made him and Jack equals maybe Jack may not have felt like killing and gaining more power was the only