The Lord Of The Flies: The Hunts :: essays research papers

A running theme in William Goldings Lord of the Flies is the hunts and their progression, as well as symbolic import it possesses as the hunts continue. The hunts always ultimately revert back to an evil and rough nature. The cycle of mans rise to power, or righteousness, and his inevitable drop cloth from grace is an important point that Golding proves again and again. Lord of the Flies, is a fib of a group of sons of different backgrounds who are marooned on an unidentified island when their stick oute crashes. As the boys try to organize and formulate a plan to get rescued, they begin to separate and as a result of a decision a band of savage tribal hunters is formed. Eventually the boys close entirely shake off civilized behavior.      pitch has always been an ill-natued boy even from the start of the book when he told Piggy to "Shut up, Fatty." (p.23). Dispite Jacks unpleasent personality, his lack of courage and his conscience preventing him from killing the first squealer they encountered. "They knew very well why he hadnt because of the enormity of the clapper decending and cutting into living flesh because of the unbearable crosscurrent." (p.34)When Jack was chosen to have got the fire going, he decides to get meat instead of tending to the fire. His following for killing a pig is symbollizing a sexual desire reinforced into human nature. While he was out pursuing the pig, the fire went out. This symbollized the situation that Jacks sexual desires led him away from hope and deeper into despair. Jack represents a daimon like, deathly force. The affinity that he wallows in is a further representation of deathliness. After his first kill, "Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair," he unconsciously imitates the ritual of the tribal initiation of the hunter, whose face is covered with the blood of his first kill.Jack then successfully convinces many biguns and littleuns to come on with him and join a tribe of savages. These savages have face-paint on, which makes them anonymous. This anonimity allows for each tribe extremity to do things he would not have normally done because of the concern of being judged by society. They basically had no shame left. So they went out, killed a pig, acted as if they were raping it, and cut off its head.