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- Red hair
- "Tall, thin and bony"
- "Ugly without silliness"
- Hs eyes are "ready to turn to anger"
- Savage appearance
- arrogant- " I ought to be chief because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp"
- Powerful- "the most obvious leader was Jack"
- Violent- "I cut the Pig's throat"
- Bloodthirsty- "compulsion to track down and kill"
- He has a strong sense of pride- losing the vote to Ralph at the start of the novel immediately antagonises ralph in the eyes of Jack because it damages Jack's pride. Jack frequently challenges Ralph's authority, and gets and gets angry if he is criticised. Jack's pride makes him cruel, he treats his tribe as servants, getting him to torture other people for him.
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- Antagonist
- Bullies Piggy, showing how he is aggressive. Jack says "Shut up, Fatty" to Piggy. He also steals his glasses in chapter 10.
- Attempts to overthrow Ralph as chief in chapter 8- "Who think's ralph oughtn't be chief?". When no one votes for him, Jack goes off to form his own tribe- "I'm not going to play any longer. Not with you" shows that he is childish and views everything as a game. The other boys (apart from ralph, Piggy, Simon and Samneric) join his tribe, showing how humans are savage.
- Represents savagery and human love of dominance and power. He is obsessed with hunting and becoming chief over the other boys.
- Represents the id according to Freud's theory of personality, he is primitive, violent, impulsive and greedy and operated on a pleasure principle. This is evident in the way he makes decisions about torturing the other boys (e.g. Samneric in chapter 11), in the way he starts the dance that kills Simon and in the way he is obsessed with hunting.
- He thinks he should be a leader but lack compassion and doesn't look after the weaker boys in the way that a leader should: he bullies Piggy, he doesn't build shelters for his tribe, and he calls the littluns "cry-babies" for being afraid of the Beast.
- He uses fear to control the other characters- he persuades people to join his tribe by saying that it will keep them safe from the beast.
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- As the novel progresses, Jack becomes animalistic- in chapter 3, he "became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees." This shows the dehumanisation of Jack. The use of natural imagery could suggest that it is the island that is causing Jack to become savage. The idea of the island being the main thing that turns the boys into savages is an important one throught the novel- without society, savagery prevails.
- Jack's growing obsession with hunting represents how the group lose their sense of civilisation and become more barbaric.
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- "They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought."- Jack paints his face, symbolising how savage he has become. It is as if Jack believes that he can do what he wants while wearing the mask of a painted face.
- When Jack kills the sow, he was "wedded to her in lust", the use of phallic imagery emphasises the savagery of the murder.
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