Lord Of The Flies Moral Allegory

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies makes use of a moral allegory to display his belief that man is naturally bad, using Jack to represent evil. During a meeting, while Piggy has the conch, Jack begins speaking out of turn. While arguing the necessity of rules, Jack says “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong--we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat--!” (Golding 91). Now separated from civilization and society, and therefor from the rules that keep people’s primal instincts hidden and suppressed, Jack becomes more violent and aggressive. This enforces that Jack is evil because it shows how brutish and bloodthirsty he is, continuously repeating the word beat for emphasis on the brutality he is …show more content…
He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.” (Golding 126), and then claims “[he is] going to be chief” of the hunters (Golding 133). This exhibits that Jack wants power, and the only way for him to gain power is by undermining Ralph’s authority and equating him to Piggy, the outcast of the island. He appoints himself chief of the hunters so that he can establish power over the boys who share the same barbaric and savage values as he does, those being that the hunt is more important than anything else on the island, including trying to get rescued. Jack slandering Ralph so that the other boys will see Ralph differently and favor him for chief is evil in nature, therefore proving that Jack is evil. After Simon is murdered, Jack’s tribe convinced themselves that Simon was the beast in disguise and “The tribe considered this; and then were shaken, as if by a flow of wind. The chief saw the effect of his words and stood abruptly.” (Golding 167). This displays Jack manipulating the tribe’s fear of the beast, by making it seem as though he had slain something they all feared and deserved their praise, to assert his dominance as the leader and the hero of the