Lord Of The Flies
... After voting a leader for themselves, the boys moved on to trying to satisfy more of their basic needs. Jack who was a boy on the island that also wanted to be leader, promises the boys that he will find them food and water to eat and drink. Some of the boys decide to go with Jack based upon his promises of food and water while others stay loyal to Ralph and go hungry. After Jack kills a pig and brings the food back to the shelters, more boys move from Ralph to Jack. This is because Jack was able to satisfy another one of their basic needs in the hierarchy, which was in the form of food. By this time, most of the boys had moved from Ralph to Jack. Their decision was based completely on the promises that Jack made to them and the needs that he had satisfied for them. When these basic needs began to be fulfilled, rather than physiological needs, the other levels in the hierarchy became more important and started to dominate the behaviour of the boys. When the next level of needs was satisfied, other needs emerged. Once the boys began to explore the island, Simon who in the movie and novel is known as the ‘seeker of truth’ finds himself in a cave face to face with what he decides is a wild beast. He returns to the other boys and tells them his tale about the beast and Jack, who was by then the dominant leader, began to fill the boys heads with thoughts about how Jack was going to kill the beast. This gave the boys a feeling of safety and security. They felt as if they were safe from the beast as long as they were under Jack’s leadership. After spending more time on the island, the boys in Jack’s ‘tribe’ became closer and closer. This was part of their transition from second to third level of Maslow’s hierarchy. The boys had satisfied their biological and physiological needs and had moved up the hierarchy to the third level that is love, affection and a feeling of belonging. The boys had completely alienated Ralph and Piggy and they were to stay on their side of the island. When some of the boys from Jack’s tribe stole Piggy’s glasses to start a fire, Ralph was upset. This was because he had become emotionally dependant on Piggy for the affection and feeling of belonging that he needed. The boys in Jack’s ‘tribe’ also got the feeling of belonging from each other and from how their leader who reinforced the feeling of them all being a tribe or one big family that stuck together no matter what. Lastly, within the back of all of the boys minds were the images they had conjured of the beast. For Jack, this was an opportunity for him to work his way up one more level of the hierarchy. Jack and Ralph both knew that the beast didn’t exist, but instead of informing his...