"The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding The famous quote by
Lord Action, "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts
absolutely" is proven to be true by the actions of the character
Jack, in the novel "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. At
the beginning of the novel Jack is an innocent, young boy who
progressively becomes power dependant and thrives off of this
power. By the end of the novel Jack has become absolutely
corrupt with this power and commits terrible acts of violence
such as killing pigs and ultimately other boys. At the beginning
of the novel, Jack's power was similar to that of the other boys
since they were all new to the island and each other. The only
dividing factor was that Jack had some additional power due to
his position as leader of the choir boys. Jack was a born leader
and when he was not elected leader of the boys on the island he
immediately sought ways to gain power. Jack was elected leader
of the hunters. This allowed him to make his first step, up the
ladder of power on the i