The coolness of his reply renders invalid Jack's supremely taunting invitation. Such instinctual calm reflects again the same strength Ralph displayed in the previous chapter when he made sure to take the lead at castle rock. While Jack's aggressive resentment has no room for reason, Ralph is not afraid once they have set off to ask for another volunteer to accompany them or to point out that their journey up the mountain in the dark is foolish.
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My Preferences My Reading List. Lord of the Flies William Golding. Adam Bede has been added to your Reading List! Jack and the hunters return from the jungle, covered with blood and chanting a bizarre song.
They carry a dead pig on a stake between them. Jack taunts Piggy by mimicking his whining voice. Ralph and Jack have a heated conversation.
At last, Jack admits his responsibility in the failure of the signal fire but never apologizes to Piggy. The boys roast the pig, and the hunters dance wildly around the fire, singing and reenacting the savagery of the hunt. Ralph declares that he is calling a meeting and stalks down the hill toward the beach alone.
At this point in the novel, the group of boys has lived on the island for some time, and their society increasingly resembles a political state. Some of the older boys, including Ralph and especially Simon, are kind to the littluns; others, including Roger and Jack, are cruel to them. Simon, Ralph, and Piggy represent the idea that power should be used for the good of the group and the protection of the littluns—a stance representing the instinct toward civilization, order, and morality.
Roger and Jack represent the idea that power should enable those who hold it to gratify their own desires and act on their impulses, treating the littluns as servants or objects for their own amusement—a stance representing the instinct toward savagery. As the tension between Ralph and Jack increases, we see more obvious signs of a potential struggle for power. Ralph flies into a rage, indicating that he is still governed by desire to achieve the good of the whole group.
But Jack, having just killed a pig, is too excited by his success to care very much about the missed chance to escape the island. Apartheid, a system of complete racial segregation, governed nearly every aspect of life for black and other South Africans. The laws dictat What is a good quote from act 1 that proves that Reverend Parris is selfish and greedy?
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Horrified, the boys hurry down the mountain to warn the group. The boar hunt and the game the boys play afterward provide stark reminders of the power of the human instinct toward savagery. Before this point in the novel, Ralph has been largely baffled about why the other boys were more concerned with hunting, dancing, bullying, and feasting than with building huts, maintaining the signal fire, and trying to be rescued. In this scene, Golding implies that every individual, however strong his or her instinct toward civilization and order, has an undeniable, innate drive toward savagery as well.
Robert, the boy who stands in for the boar in the reenactment, is nearly killed as the other boys again get caught up in their excitement and lose sight of the limits of the game in their mad desire to kill. Afterward, when Jack suggests killing a littlun in place of a pig, the group laughs. At this point, probably none of them—except possibly Jack and Roger—would go so far as to actually carry out such a plan.
Nonetheless, the fact that the boys find the possibility exciting rather than horrifying is rather unsettling. As befits a power struggle in a savage group, the conflict between Ralph and Jack manifests itself not as a competition to prove who would be the better leader but instead as a competition of sheer strength and courage. Just as Ralph boldly climbed the hill alone to prove his bravery in the previous chapter, Jack goes up the mountain alone now.
Although Ralph realizes that it is foolish to hunt the beast at night, he knows that, in a society that values strength, he cannot risk appearing to be a coward. As a result, he assents to going up the mountainside at night. Because they go at night, however, they see the parachutist distorted by shadows and believe it to be the beast.
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