Lord of the Flies

Illustrate the ironic turn in jack behaviour

"I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things. "

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This turns out to be ironic because most of the boys do turn out to be savages and they do everything wrong. At the time, the British Empire was the large and considered, by the British, to be the epitome of "civilization".