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To begin, William Golding portrays Jack as being very evil in the novel in several ways. Jack is very rude and disrespectful to most of the boys on the island. Jack is described by Willam Golding as tall, thin, and bony, his hair is red, his face is crumpled and freckled, and is silly. He has light blue eyes, that are inclined to turn to rage. He is the preeminent advocate of chaos on the island. Jack becomes a weak and evil person and becomes savage, and unmerciful. William Golding conveys evil in Jack when he tells Piggy, Shut up fatty (Golding 2). Jack knows that Piggy hates it when you make fun of him, and it’s overall rude to make fun of someones weight. No matter how many times Piggy says he doesn’t like him when you call him that Jack doesn’t care. Even though Piggy weighs the most out of all the boys it doesn’t mean he should get made fun of. When Jack calls Piggy fatty, that shows that Jack has no respect for Piggys feelings. Next, another example of when Jack is evil is when he becomes bloodthirsty and slaughters the pig in a very cruel and harsh way. In these moments he has been on the island for so long that he is not thinking straight anymore. At the beginning of the novel he was just a calm regular boy, but being on the island for so long he starts to act inhumanely. When he kills the pig he laughs and shakes the blood off his hands from the pig. He becomes very cruel in the killing of the pig. He leads his powerful hunters into a hunting-dance frenzy. As they are dancing around the pig all

the hunters start chanting Kill the pig, cut her throat, spill her blood (Golding 69). During the dance frenzy, Simon comes creeping out of the forests and Jack and his hunters ambush him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth. No doubt, Jack portrays the evilest quality a human can have, which is a total appetite for blood and the influence of the hunt. One last example of how Jack is portrayed as an evil character is when he takes advantage of Piggys glasses. Being stranded on an island you don’t have access to a lighter or any equipment that can be used to start a fire. The only item that they had access to is Piggys glasses, but obviously Piggy needs them to see. When Jack and Ralph split up into two teams, Piggy stayed with Ralph. This means Jack and his hunters had no access to fire equipment. When Jack catches the pig he needed a fire so he could cook the meat, but without Piggys glasses, there was no way he could start a fire. During the night, Jack and his hunters went to where Piggy and Ralph were sleeping so they could try and steal Piggys glasses. But at night, Ralph and Piggy didn’t really sleep because they were scared. That night, Ralph and Piggy heard noises and assumed it was Jack and his hunters so Piggy quickly put on his glasses. When Jack realizes Piggys glasses his aggressively took Piggys glasses off of his face and ran off with them saying, His specks, use them as burning glasses (Golding 59). This also represents Jacks dominance over Piggy, and how he takes advantage of him.