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- Controlling - Immediately wants to be leader.
- Some leadership abilities - Manages to get the boys to become members of his tribe.
- Ambitious - Breaks rules himself to further his own interests.
- Quite savage - This gradually comes to the surface as the book progresses.
- Proud/Arrogant - "I'm head boy." or "I can sing C sharp..."
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- Is the main antagonist of the novel.
- Represents dictatorship - uses rhetorical skills to twist Ralph's words, uses the other boys as standard bearers who say "The Chief has spoken."
- Is the main obstacle to Ralph - separates the boys
- Represents the darker side of human nature
- Used along with Ralph to show how the darker side of human nature and the good side of human nature can exist together but one side will eventually dominate if the person is put under certain conditions.
- Used to show how easily we as human beings can be corrupted.
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- From the start of the novel the reader can see Jack is quite stubborn when he immediately claims that 'he should be leader.'
- When Jack first encounters a pig he is unable to kill it showing he still retains some sense of moral propriety that society had instilled in him before he became stranded with the other boy son the island.
- As the novel progresses Jack becomes more primitive and almost 'ape-like' as he prowls through the jungle trying to hunt.
- Jack soon becomes very aggressive towards Ralph and Piggy and starts his own tribe, showing the break from democracy to dictatorship.
- Jack has an active part in the murder of Simon and is also obsessed with hunting showing how he has turned 'savage' and almost 'inhuman.' This also shows how primal instincts have almost taken over and how he has succumbed to the darkness of human nature.
- At the end of the novel Jack steps forward to challenge Ralph when the naval officer asks 'who is in charge?' However, he stops as he comes to recognise that the rules that they had abandoned are now enforced once again.
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- By the end of the novel Jack has learned how to manipulate the boys fear of the beast to control them which shows the reader how religion and superstition can be used as 'instruments of power.'
- Jack's physical description is quite unattractive. Golding describes him as being 'ugly without silliness.' This encourages the reader to develop a certain attitude towards him and hints at the ugly personality and character as well.
- Jack paints his face creating a 'mask-like' effect. Golding makes Jack do this to show how he has become a almost completely different person to his previous self and is almost hiding behind this 'mask.'
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