There are no parents to set limits on the island, and Jack seems to feel that adults are the only people worth paying any respect to, "...the fairheaded boy with the creamy shell on his knees [Ralph] did not seem to satisfy him." Without the boundaries set by adults to sustain them, Jack and all of the other children are prone to forgetting the enactments that have kept their world entact until now. As they forget these rules, they become set up for their raw human self-preservation to come out in them. Thi

Unfortunately, Jack gets too angry, he becomes too self-conscious of inadequacies to be a chief. The tool he uses to overcome this is his mask. Before the formation of Jack's evil facade, the book says that when Roger looks at him, he sees that "...a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin." This is the beast, his capacity for evil and violence, and Jack's mask is what lets this come out. In fact, the very first thing he does after putting it on is emit a bloodthirsty snarl, and strike the water. The mask lets him forget among other things such as his responsibilities, one of them being to keep the fire lit. He does kill a pig however, and this is his first step toward domination of the children. Though they don't exactly think he should be leader, they admire him. "Jack looked round for understanding, but found only respect."

"Green candles," said Jack contemptuously. "We can't eat them. Come on."

Jack's shift from English snobbery to primal savagery, from verbal trickery to fascist ruling is a prime example of what happens when our civil selves are masked and forgotten, and the evil nature inside of us comes out. Jack never meant for all of that to happen, he was just a jealous boy whose feelings were hurt when he wasn't chosen chief, and who wanted to have some fun. Because of Jack's already violent nature, the beast inside of him was easily able to slowly transform his psyche until all he really cared about was killing and eating, the basic primal instincts implanted in all of us. Since Jack was "the first to go" in a way, he became a leader for the boys who were influenced later in the book by the beast. Jack never meant for the anarchy that he and the Lord of the flies created together to kill, but once it did, it's total consumption of the children seemed inevitable. The only thing that could stop Jack from leading the tribe and himself into self-destruction, was the soldier from the outside world, whose warship buried the beast in the boys, and brought it out in the last warriors of a world which lay in ruins.

The group's resentment of Ralph grows not only as they forget about the fire, but as Ralph does too. Because of this, Ralph has a harder time convincing them to light a signal when they would rather be making a fort. When he finally gets them to go with him, they boys follow mutinously, with Jack leading the way. Just promoting thoughts of mutiny isn't enough however. Jack is so ravenous for leadership, he becomes angry every time he isn't leading. Jack calls a meeting by blowing the conch "inexpertly". Since the conch is a symbol of leadership, Jack's insufficient blowing technique means he's not as good a leader as Ralph is. Jack would be a dictator who cares about nothing but survival, hunting and eating.

This is a hint of what's going to come later in the book. Ralph associates something with possible rescue and civilization, whereas Jack associates it with wild savage animals. In the same chapter, the three boys find a bush of candle bushes.

At the end of the novel, Jack's ultimate right of passage into complete domination of the island is the assassination of Ralph. Planning to sacrifice him to the Lord of the flies, Jack burns Ralph out of his hiding place. Ironically, the fire that Jack created to kill Ralph was the thing that saved him from his death. This is because the fire has attracted a naval officer. The presence of an adult brings the boys back to reality, and the rules which they so easily forgot without the presence of elderly authority are violently remembered. Jack is no longer a savage, but an ugly "little boy" again, no more than a frail example that grade-schoolers develop bad habits and manners when unsupervised.

s human nature, this capacity for anger and violence in the boys is the beast. Every time Jack gets angry, the beast comes out in him and pushes him farther into

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