GCSE English Literature Lord Of The Flies

Jack

• First Impressions - red hair -suggests anger
•  black cap, cloak etc. - connotations of death
• ugly - could suggest ugly character - "ugly without silliness"
• military leader of choir - shows desire for power? barks orders - "Choir! Stand still!"
• "staring out of his face were two blue eyes, ready to turn to anger" - evil image right from the start.
• Main characteristics - arrogance - ("I ought to be leader")
• desire for power 
• violent and savage/bully - ("Use a littl'un"), 
• obsessed with hunting and killing - ("If there is a beast, we'll kill it")
• evil comes out quickly - like the obsession with hunting and violence - in chapter 2, Jack almost kills a pig - but can't quite bring himself too.
• Development of character
• becomes increasingly violent and savage - at first he can't kill the piglet "because of the enormity of the knife descending into living flesh" but he goes on to become a hunter ("ape-like")
• compare chapter 1 with later description in forest.
• degradation of language shows degradation of behaviour.
• At first, he is keen to have rules ("Let's have lots of rules"), - so he can punish people?
• Later on, he…