Jack's Vanity

Being stuck on an uncivilised island affected all the boys individually, in different ways. However, it affected Jack the most. Being the type of person he was, Jack acted inhumanely without the social concepts of society on how to behave. He became cut-off and distracted from the main goal of being rescued, he became increasingly more vain and power-hungry, and the lack of civilisation allowed him act on the anger and violence he felt inside. Jack started drifting off from the boys (especially Ralph, Piggy and Simon) when he became obsessed with hunting the pigs. He was no longer helping with what needed to get done to be rescued, and instead just went off and hunted all day. An example of this would be on p.50-52, when Ralph and Simon were
On p.126, Jack hints himself and the biguns as better, and more worthy than the littluns. Robert plays the role of the pig when the hunters and Ralph recreate their recent hunt, but when they actually hurt Robert in the remake Jack suggests using one of the littluns to play the pig instead. Jack is imposing the idea that it would be okay for a littlun to be hurt in the reenactment, instead of a bigun. Jack’s obvious view on the unimportance of the smaller boys’ lives just goes to show that Jack views himself as being much more worthy of life than the littluns. Also, on p.138-140, Jack asks the boys to vote for him as a new chief, and no one votes for him. His lust for blood has twisted his mind into thinking that he is better suited as a leader than Ralph because he can ‘provide’ for the boys in the way Jack thinks they need. The stranded boys on the island don’t need a ruthless chief who disvalues their lives, but Jack thinks that that is the way to restore order to their collapsing system. However, he doesn’t necessarily have the best intentions in mind when he thinks this. Since they were first stranded on the island, Jack has made it clear he wanted to be in charge. From when he first introduces himself as the head boy and chapter chorister, he has made it very obvious he thinks he is most suited to take on any role involving power. Even though the other boys might’ve thought that Jack’s tribe could’ve
In England, he must’ve had anger problems also, because such rage doesn’t just appear. However, because there weren’t any adults around to tell Jack to contain his anger, he was allowed to express it and act on it freely. On p.99, Jack tells the boys that they shouldn’t listen to the rules because they’re strong, they hunt! If there is really a beast they’ll hunt it down, and beat and beat and beat–, further showing the violence Jack is capable of. Piggy, later on that page, wonders aloud what the adults would think if they heard what Jack was saying. If there had been adults there while Jack had made his small speech, the adults would have most certainly stopped him. Thus, the absence of adults has led Jack to act out in such an abusive manner, simply because he can. There is an abundance of other examples that describe Jack’s barbarity in the novel, such as, “The madness came into his eyes again. ‘I thought I might kill’.” (p.51), and "There were lashings of blood,’ said Jack, laughing and shuddering, ‘you should have seen it!" (p.73). The lack of society let Jack act on all of his anger and violence inside him, making him a complete