Trace the developing evil on the island by reference to these quotations derived from significant stages in the text.
One of the main themes to emerge from "Lord of the Flies" is Mr.Goldings opinion of the deterioration of modern society reflected in the intensifying evil on the island. The boys who are on the verge of adolescence come across the island by no fault on their own. Their early efforts at civilized behaviour break down as their tendency towards destruction surface.
Civilized behaviour is particularly apparent in the character of Ralph who, initially acknowledges Jack's hunting abilities, after Ralph is elected chief, when he notices Jack's "blush of mortification". However, Jack begins to erode the unity of the group by rejecting Piggy when the latter wanted to join Ralph, Simon and Jack up the mountain. Another crack in the society of the boys appears when Jack ignores and disregards the conch on top on the mountain. But when Jack begins to give in to his "madness" of needing to kill, the foundation of the island society is shaken. Another symbol of the evil to come is portrayed in the character of Roger who dislikes the littluns for no apparent reason, he shows this when he throws stones at one of the children but deliberately misses. Hunting has a major affect on Jack as he feels like his "not hunting but being hunted" which makes him more on the look out for the unusual causing him to have violent outbursts on any of the boys. The other effects that hunting has on Jack are the way he goes back to an uncivilized way when he lives naked and paints his body and his face. .
The boys soon come to their true nature and instead of doing tasks that benefit all of them they tend to do what they like which eventually turns to violence via hunting and the occasional rituals the boys have after killing a wild pig. The boys have a special chant that they use when they kill a pig and usually after the chant they like to have reenactments of the kill and sometimes these lead to further violence.
