Jack's Responsibility In Lord Of The Flies

Jack got offended after Ralph say that his hunters were no competition for the beast. Golding writes “the beast had teeth, said Ralph, and big black eyes” (124). For that Jack grab the conch and called for an assembly. During the assembly most of the boys vote for Ralph’s to be remove as a leader. Jack left the group and most of the boys followed him.

Jack is a great example of not having power to get to the top. Jack at the beginning of the novel has to fight from the bottom for everyone to respect him and give him that power. Jack never sees eye to eye with the leader and this leads him into wanting to be chief of the people. The first time where he undermines the leader is, “Ralph spoke again, hoarsely. He had not moved.

Jack, a hunter, splits off from Ralph’s group to become another group that stands for savagery, hunting, and eventually outnumbers Ralph’s group. This leaves Ralph with no alleged allies.

Ralph wanted to remain in power because he knew he wouldn’t do stupid things and kill people. He knew once Jack convinced the boys to join his tribe to have fun, his leader role was gone. In fact, this didn’t stop Ralph from trying to have a say in Jack’s actions. Ralph always wanted to do what was best for the boys. Even if the boys didn’t see it because they wanted to have fun like Jack.

We start to see his want for power right off the bat in chapter one. He comes in and thinks that he should be the chief because he is, “chapter chorister and head boy. [and he] can sing C sharp,” (Golding 22). Jack bases his assertion that he is the kids' natural leader on unjustified factors that were completely irrelevant. Jack wass granted the position of choir leader, but is unable to exercise this authority over the rest of the boys because of Piggy's important vote for Ralph.

Ralph is trying to get everyone on the island organized and they each would have a role but Jack wants to take over the island and rule it. The dictator in Jack becomes dominant in his personality during the panic over the beast sighting on the mountain. In trying to get Ralph impeached, he uses his rhetorical skills to twist Ralph's words. In defense, he offers to the group a rationale that "He'd never have got us meat," asserting that hunting skills make for an effective leader.

However, power may be blissful and self-fulfilling, but it is temporary and corrupts one’s judgment. The book Lord of the Flies written by William Golding shows a great example of this. Ralph and Jack are two characters who are chiefs. They show different views of power, and how they express it.

Even though Ralph accredit jobs for his tribe, no one would listen to him. The littluns would avoid him, and the biguns wouldn’t mind him; they would talk about serious thoughts but do very little. Jack, rather, was hunting for pigs. He was becoming more viscous every time he went hunting; Conversely, he was trying to tell Ralph that they had no meat, but, nothing was as important to Ralph as the shelters. (chapter 3 page 51).

Jack tries to discredit him by calling a meeting about the beast and turning the tables to say some negative things about Ralph which means that Jack is ignoring the rules of society and going rogue, evil to say in his voice. “Yes. The beast is a hunter. Only-shut up! The next thing is that we couldn’t kill it.

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 5) Jack feels that going out hunting is more important than following Ralph’s rules which is a growing desire for power over the others, and focused on hunting and barbarity. All in all Jack shows off the human evil nature in the book with the action he has done.

Jack has become almost a complete savage, challenging Ralph for power and separating off in his way. It creates more tension as Jack is shown to go off the tip of the cliff in terms of corruption. Jack is now lying, pushing Ralph off his throne, and is considered the leader. It is exhibited how Jack is now overpowering Ralph in terms of leadership. The suspense between Jack and Ralph arrives at a climax when Ralph humiliates Jack's hunters by referring to them as "boys with sticks."

He starts off as a leader that the other boys look up to, but quickly becomes obsessed with hunting and exerting control over the group. He leads a group of boys who are eager to hunt and kill wild pigs on the island, and this behavior only escalates as Jack becomes increasingly ruthless and violent. Eventually, the other boys start to see their fellow group members as enemies and ultimately kill Simon and Piggy. Jack is aware that his actions are wrong and dangerous, but he chooses to continue causing violence and aggression among the boys. He takes pleasure in the violence and doesn't feel any remorse for his actions.

In the quote above, Ralph is attempting to hide when the boys pass by him. Jack however notices him and Ralph realizes this may be the end. Jack, along with his tribe and their spears and painted faces run down Ralph through the forest even setting it on fire. In the end Ralph ends up being saved by luck, running into an officer. If it were not for the officer, Jack’s evilness would have got the best of him, and Ralph would not have survived.

Jack brings out the disorder and a little savagery in Ralph by encouraging him to participate in brute actions . He does so by telling Ralph to hunt with them for a pig. This results in an attack on Roger (Golding 111-115) that was caused by the thought of Roger being the pig. Later in the story, Jack also encourages Ralph to go hunting for the beast. And when asked what Jack would do when he found the beast, he told them that he would kill it.

Jack thrives on adrenaline and power, so when he starts losing power, he breaks away from Ralph’s group to start his own tribe. At this point Jack has become a