![]() ![]() As the boys sing it, they get the same effect, they even circle a boy who acts to be the pig and act out the killing. Whenever Jack goes hunting, he chants his song which makes him exhilarated and savage. Jack triggers the boy’s savagery by making them perform ritualistic practices. William Golding depicts the boy’s social development on the island as innocent children in a new environment to selfish and savage because of Jack’s savage influence, which we can relate to Rousseau’s social contract theory. ![]() Jean-Jacques Rousseau states in his social contract theory that man started off as innocent people and as civilization developed, they became selfish. He manipulates the boys into agreeing with him, triggers their savagery, and torments them with threats to their life. In the novel, the boy’s main source of their development is Jack. As we evolved, we became selfish and savage, because we wanted to be like others and since they were selfish, we were too. ![]() ![]() Rousseau contradicts Golding’s thoughts and thinks that humans when they were first in Nature, were civil and innocent. William Golding makes it seem that humans, if not controlled or looked after, can go to a darker side of themselves. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding characterises the boy from innocent children who have just been deserted on an island to murderous savages who have gone to a darker side. ![]()
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