Lord Of The Flies Comparison Essay

The Contrasting Adversaries of the Island In William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, Jack Merridew is major character that has tension with another major character, Ralph, throughout the book, becoming arch enemies, or, rivals if you will. Jack and Ralph have a paramount power struggle over who exactly is the leader of the boys that crashed on the island along with them. The two boys gain and lose followers or tribesmen throughout the book as these two different figureheads clash in almost all-out war. As Ralph is more of a calm, charismatic individual that resembles a source of order and integrity, as Jack is a more egomaniacal, power-hungry individual, much like Germany, at the time this book takes place in, or the Second Great War. In the beginning of the novel, Ralph is confused as to why the other boys on the island, would rather give into bloodlust and their barbarian sides. As the book progresses, he learns of the nefarious …show more content…
Jack is the initial hunter and ‘savage’ boy on the island. Jack seems to have some sort of neurosis, as he is crazed by an insane bloodlust after killing his first pig on the island, and showing his faustian nature. As Ralph, throughout the book, has power over the island, Jack does covet power, since the beginning of the novel, he has a colossal power-struggle with Ralph, he does not get voted as commander of the island. Instead, he lets his self-sustaining prowess of power let itself destroy the social orders of the island. Ralph adjudges his wishes, and apprises that he was not voted. Jack, later in the tale, he splits off from the main group, and adopts a number of followers, as he states that they will have almost to no order, which is completely contradictory to the real life in his tribe. Jack, with his aforementioned self-sustained prowess of power, he becomes a autarch, where every subject in his tribe must do what he says when he says