Lord Of The Flies Identity Analysis
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood” (Golding Lord 69) as the group of huntsmen chants when the pig dies. William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is about an airplane crash onto an island where the boys have to find a way to get off the adult free island. While being unsupervised, all the boys on the island met up. Ralph is voted to be the leader and Jack and the choir boys became hunters. The hunters’ leader, Jack, starts to have fun on the island. The transformation of Jack from desperate leader to full-time savage hunter highlights his adoption to nature, which ultimately proves that environmental factors can affect one’s being.
Through the wanting desires of Jack, Golding demonstrates how satisfying desires can make a character …show more content…
For example, masks can be used for rituals to celebrate for a certain occasion. In “Sunglasses Makes You Less Generous,” Alice Robb states: “Around the world, people don masks for rituals and ceremonies requiring them to let loose—from the violent masked clowns of the Mexican Yaqui Pasida to the revelers at Carnival celebrations across Europe” (Robb Sunglasses 17). Masks are not always used for rituals, it can also be used to play as a character. When used in rituals, they can play as a character being represented by a human. The player of the character has to know how the character behavior and feelings. In addition, masks can have multiple meanings when being analyzed. As Jack becomes a desperate pig hunter, he goes off and hunts. He and his hunters’ responsibility was to watch the fire, Being prepared to hunt for a pig, “He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over to the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw” (Golding Lord 63). As Jack makes his mask, he creates a character for himself. His ask masks can foreshadow what could possibly happen next. He could catch a pig and make his hunting a ritual or not catch a pig and wastes his time making the mask. Jack possessed the character as the hunter behind the mask to
Through the wanting desires of Jack, Golding demonstrates how satisfying desires can make a character …show more content…
For example, masks can be used for rituals to celebrate for a certain occasion. In “Sunglasses Makes You Less Generous,” Alice Robb states: “Around the world, people don masks for rituals and ceremonies requiring them to let loose—from the violent masked clowns of the Mexican Yaqui Pasida to the revelers at Carnival celebrations across Europe” (Robb Sunglasses 17). Masks are not always used for rituals, it can also be used to play as a character. When used in rituals, they can play as a character being represented by a human. The player of the character has to know how the character behavior and feelings. In addition, masks can have multiple meanings when being analyzed. As Jack becomes a desperate pig hunter, he goes off and hunts. He and his hunters’ responsibility was to watch the fire, Being prepared to hunt for a pig, “He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over to the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw” (Golding Lord 63). As Jack makes his mask, he creates a character for himself. His ask masks can foreshadow what could possibly happen next. He could catch a pig and make his hunting a ritual or not catch a pig and wastes his time making the mask. Jack possessed the character as the hunter behind the mask to