Lord Of The Flies Annotations
JACK
Lord of the Flies
Jack Key Quotations I
◦ “ we can’t eat them” this is about the candle buds, the fact that jack says he cannot eat them shows that he doesn’t care as they are not useful to him and he has no appreciation for beauty or his natural surroundings as apposed to Simons response. Shows the selfish nature that he has already, in a way he could be practical in this sense they are useless to us. A quality of a leader, he is decisive. His language is very assertive.
◦ “we’ll have rules… then when anyone breaks ‘em…” ironic at the beginning of the novel he is the one saying that people should have rules but in the end he is the one that ends up breaking them. He is the one that wants to establish the rules as he is thinking about scaring people and having power over people if they break those rules. He is trying to rule by fear, he is a dictator, a tyrant leader. He doesn’t want rules for the benefit of living in a civilised society he just wants the power.
◦ “the conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain” he will not admit to having broken the rule he is the one in absolute control of the rules for his own means further demonstrating his likeness to a dictator. He changes the rules when he wants to break them. Hypocritical that he is the first one to break the walls. He is driven by a different agenda, jack wants to have power and his own gain.
◦ “dog- like, uncomfortably on all fours” comparing him to an animal, dogs hunt and he is a hunter, he resembles an animal showing that he is no longer human like. He is uncomfortable he similar to when he couldn’t kill the pig and bring the knife down, showing he isn’t completely comfortable in the role of a hunter, animal. He is still partly governed by society and civilisation. Moving way from being human like. A dog is a domestic animal he is still linked back to society,
Jack Key Quotations II
◦ “The chief’s blush was hidden by the white and red clay” this image is used to show he is masked by the clay
Lord of the Flies
Jack Key Quotations I
◦ “ we can’t eat them” this is about the candle buds, the fact that jack says he cannot eat them shows that he doesn’t care as they are not useful to him and he has no appreciation for beauty or his natural surroundings as apposed to Simons response. Shows the selfish nature that he has already, in a way he could be practical in this sense they are useless to us. A quality of a leader, he is decisive. His language is very assertive.
◦ “we’ll have rules… then when anyone breaks ‘em…” ironic at the beginning of the novel he is the one saying that people should have rules but in the end he is the one that ends up breaking them. He is the one that wants to establish the rules as he is thinking about scaring people and having power over people if they break those rules. He is trying to rule by fear, he is a dictator, a tyrant leader. He doesn’t want rules for the benefit of living in a civilised society he just wants the power.
◦ “the conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain” he will not admit to having broken the rule he is the one in absolute control of the rules for his own means further demonstrating his likeness to a dictator. He changes the rules when he wants to break them. Hypocritical that he is the first one to break the walls. He is driven by a different agenda, jack wants to have power and his own gain.
◦ “dog- like, uncomfortably on all fours” comparing him to an animal, dogs hunt and he is a hunter, he resembles an animal showing that he is no longer human like. He is uncomfortable he similar to when he couldn’t kill the pig and bring the knife down, showing he isn’t completely comfortable in the role of a hunter, animal. He is still partly governed by society and civilisation. Moving way from being human like. A dog is a domestic animal he is still linked back to society,
Jack Key Quotations II
◦ “The chief’s blush was hidden by the white and red clay” this image is used to show he is masked by the clay