It speaks both to Jack's digression into savagery and Ralph's wish for a save civilization. Jack sees the beast as a chance to vent some of the savagery that he has turned to, and wants to use it as a way to prove himself and the rest of the hunting boys. Ralph sees the beast as a threat to the safety of the boys' world, and thinks that they have to fight it to stay safe.
Probably for a number of reason. Ralph had lead the way onto Castle Rock, when at the time it seemed as if the beast must be there. Jack had then insisted that they climb the mountain, despite Ralph's protests that it was getting dark. Finally Ralph had probably had enough of Jack's needling remarks over the course of the day and decided to call his bluff when Jack said he'd go by himself.
Ralph states quite clearly, on several occasions, that "there is no beast." Jack, while appearing to agree with Ralph, then adds, "but if there were a beast my hunters would hunt it down and kill it." Later Jack leaves offerings from his kill to appease the beast.
Ralph feels that it is his duty as chief to go and look for the beast. Uppermost in Ralph's mind is the need to relight the fire so that they can be rescued, he views the beast as an obstacle which is preventing this. Jack is the self appointed head of the hunters and as the task involves hunting and tracking he is an obvious choice to go too. Jack also wishes to be leader, so he can't allow Ralph to gain prestige from doing something alone, Jack wants his full share of any glory.Ralph feels that it is his duty as chief to go and look for the beast. Uppermost in Ralph's mind is the need to relight the fire so that they can be rescued, he views the beast as an obstacle which is preventing this. Jack is the self appointed head of the hunters and as the task involves hunting and tracking he is an obvious choice to go too. Jack also wishes to be leader, so he can't allow Ralph to gain prestige from doing something alone, Jack wants his full share of any glory.
Jack wants to kill. Jack loves the idea of hunting the beast. Ralph continuously says there is no beast. When Samneric report about what the beast looks like, Jack says he will hunt it and asks who wants to join him. Ralph, the more reasonable of the two, says they only have wooden spears. Ralph admits he is scared. He always thought the beast was fake, but now he think there might be a beast. In the end, Ralph and Jack both decide to hunt the beast.
-Spoiler warning- The only other time a stick is sharpened at both ends is after Jack killes the sow and offers the head to the beast for protection. It means that Roger wants to murder Ralph, cut his throat, and put his disembodied head on the stick as an offering to Satan.
The lord of the flies originally hung on a stick sharpened at both ends. One end in the earth and the other supporting the pig head. Roger intends to do this same thing to Ralph if they kill him, but replacing the pigs head with Ralphs. They dont kill Ralph :)
Samneric tell Ralph that Jack intends to hunt him and that he has "sharpened a stick at both ends." Later Ralph finds and takes the stick on which Jack had mounted the pig's head, as an offering to the beast. Ralph realises that the stick has a point at each end. The implication is that Jack intended to behead Ralph and mount his head on a sharpened stick, as an offering to the beast.
Roger has prepared a stick sharpened at both ends for Ralph. This means that he has the same end in mind for Ralph as the sow (female pig). The sow was killed rather brutally killed prior to having her decapitated head mounted on a stick sharpened at both ends as an offering to "the Beast." This is a thinly vailed threat on Roger's part.
Both. At the end he turns into a 'beautiful' man. The moral is 'True beauty is on the inside - Not the outside.'
Jack plans to hunt Ralph and kill him. Then he plans to mount Ralph's head on a stick sharpened at both ends as an offering to the beast.
The pigs head, which was offered to the beast, was mounted on a spear which had been sharpened at both ends. One point to hold the head and one point to stick into the ground. The implication is that Jack intends to behead Ralph and then mount his head on a stick as an offering to the beast.
Both Piggy and Simon deny the existence of a physical "beast" on the island. However, Simon believes that though not physical, there is a beast. Such a beast is the one that is inside all of the boys, and is inside all those of humans. The innate evil of mankind.