They victimised individuals, you shut up, you fat slug, and bully them, struck his fist into Piggy's stomach. Antagonism is evident when the jealously and enmity between Jack and Ralph is directed to goading and rivalry and later surges to its climax as conflict rages between the two, when they were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring. The boys begin to savour the right of domination' and imposing a will to exercis[e] control over living things, as they revel in being on top of the sow stabbing downwards. As a sequence to this, the biguns' savour the illusion of mastery' over the weak, be it through enforcing their influence and power by dictation, you got to join my tribe, being inconsiderate and unmindful towards the needs of others, as for the fear-you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us serve you right is something did get you, or by exploitation for their own means, you want a real hunt use a littlun. As initiated by throwing stones calculated to miss, for the boys, the desire to squeeze and hurt [becomes] over-mastering' as they begun to hit with more and more passionate hysteria' just for fun and games. Eventually the games' adopt a devastating twist with horrible significance: inured bloodthirst, from the murder of young Simon' to the wilful launching of the rock [that] struck Piggy. The decline in the vile attitude and behaviour of the boys from boyish habits to manly evils is marked at its zenith with a premeditated manhunt which is conducted with sharpened stick at both ends, an act which undisputedly stems from a vile nature implanted in these boys.
By contrast this statement can be challenged, for there are testaments to the fact that the boys are not all vile. The littluns' particularly by nature are innocent' and far from ill intent. They are introvert, suffer[ing] untold terrors of the dark' by night and trying to soothe one another's nave fears of beasties' by cry[ing] in sympathy' and huddl[ing] together for comfort.