Essay Archive - Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
Lord of the Flies: Essay on Jack Merridew
"The theme (of Lord of the Flies) is an attempt to trace the
defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral
is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical mature of the
individual and not on any political system however apparently logical
or respectable."
-- William Golding
In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Jack Merridew,
chief of the hunters, represents the hidden human passion and animal
cruelty. The name Jack comes from Hebrew and means "one who supplant....
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